Glad you liked my comment. I learnt about Kolmogorov complexity through it! I think that Minecraft basically provides some beauty to the complexity yet structure that it has and that too comes in a program that I can download!
> [Like you I also worry about short form video, but I note that in the past humans have got bored of these types of addictions so you might find we see it waning at some point.]
I hope that I am wrong about it. I can be wrong and I usually am and in this case I want myself to be wrong, but within the context of discussion and as it currently stands, I am more worried about that but I do hope that the future will be a brighter future.
Another game that I like with Minecraft is pokemon.
I genuinely think that you will love this video really a lot: Competitive Pokemon may be Impossible to Explain[0][1]
This is a video of an economist Phd person trying to explain competitive pokemon and the most accurate representation that he could come up with for the title is that it may be impossible to explain, but I think that within this 45 minutes video, he does a pretty damn good job at explaining it.
There is some joy in all the complexity behind the scenes that children can be exposed to in "simple" games. There is fun in exploring all these forms of complexity especially if its a phenomenon that other people connect to. I have so much fun playing competitive pokemon with my friends and if someone plays pokemon or minecraft, then it can help strengthen the bond and be part of community of like-minded people in many ways. In my opinion, this is the largest benefit of such things (especially when the downside seems to be comparatively little but nonetheless, I still believe that there are be downsides but still as said by jacquesm himself, there are far worse things out there than minecraft/pokemon)
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrR6MquGU6A&t=16s
[1]: https://attraylor.medium.com/competitive-pok%C3%A9mon-may-be...