Is there a video game that if two people, who have never met, have played it, they can on average coordinate in another unrelated environment 2x better? I believe there is, and we should use AI to make it.
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@misc{holtzman-coordination-enhancing-video-2026,
author = {Holtzman, Ari},
title = {Coordination Enhancing Video Game},
year = {2026},
url = {https://hypogenic.ai/ideahub/idea/dC7HVD9S8OESdXzEYluK}
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I felt like this paper is working on this idea: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381
agreed!
I feel like a lot of Co-op games can do this. I liked the puzzle-solving themed ones where it requires a lot of communication.
e.g.:
yes, but they usually don't put you in NPC social ecosystems of any significant complexity