The pleasure of the system : cybernetic feedback loops and flow in video games
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper explores the mobilization of classic cybernetic research and flow theory within video \ngame theory, particularly in relation to their conceptualizations of the mind and the body. \nThrough a consideration of rule structures, meaningful play, and the magic circle in video game \nplay, the systematic and structural considerations of cybernetics are contrasted with the study of \npleasure and immersion in flow theory. Through these analyses, this paper considers whether the \nuse of cybernetics and flow serves to epistemologically emphasize or displace the body in a \nmedium that has been argued by Lahti (2003) to induce not simply cognitive but bodily \npleasures.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it