C Thi Nguyen

@add_hawk

Philosophy professor. Writes about games, trust, art, intimacy, echo chambers, metrics. Also posts @add-hawk.bsky.social

Salt Lake City, UT objectionable.net Joined August 2015

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C Thi Nguyen @add_hawk Jul 1, 2020

My book, GAMES: AGENCY IS ART is out! It's about:

How game designers sculpt agency.
How games let us record, transmit, and explore new forms of agency.
How real games make us more free.
How gamification undermines our freedom.

C Thi Nguyen @add_hawk Jan 12

People will say things like, "This made my day" or week or whatever, but the WaPo review of my book... made me feel like I have not wasted my life.

penguinpress @penguinpress Jan 12

A five-star review for @add_hawk's book, THE SCORE, from @washingtonpost: "Brilliant and wildly original . . . THE SCORE is socially attentive, historically literate and imbued with sensual glee. It is exuberantly eclectic." On sale tomorrow!
washingtonpost.com/books/2026/01/…
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C Thi Nguyen @add_hawk Jul 14, 2025

I am also now on BlueSky - @add-hawk.bsky.social - find me and let me find you.

C Thi Nguyen @add_hawk Dec 25, 2024

The Nightmare Before Christmas as a meditation on cultural appropriation

C Thi Nguyen @add_hawk Jul 2, 2024

The example that helps me intuitively understand how LLMs "work, more than anything else: "naming artifacts":

It turns out, LLMs are systematically biased against anybody with the following names: Donald, Barack, Hillary, Bernie.