How Much Are Games Like Factorio Sapping The Intellectual Potential Of Humanity?

[optimalsolver]

https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/ml00ac/how_much_are_games_like_factorio_and_eve_online/

[Mountain_Skies]

Probably far less than AdTech and FinTech are doing so.

[kbelder]

How much is music, art, fiction sapping the Intellectual potential of humanity?

Let alone 'Love'. What a distraction that is from coding.

[StimDeck]

I can confirm these things are highly addictive. I have easily played Mindustry for >100 hours.

It scratches that programmer itch nicely.