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HAMURABI.BAS and Its Dystopian Lessons
Software Engineer
The strategies revealed some surprising financial and political lessons, probably antithetical to its original purpose as an educational game for sixth graders. I wrote an automatic program that allowed me to input the current figures and it would suggest actions for each turn, and continually adjusted my strategy. This emergent behavior creates a joint fantasy game that makes it feel just as realistic to me today as it did 35 years ago when I barely understood the mechanics.
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