“Fun, Fun, Fun”: Types of Fun, Attitudes to Fun, and their Relation to Personality and Biographical Factors

Artificial Fun: Mapping Minds to the Space of Fun

Yampolskiy and others have shown that the space of possible minds is vast, actually infinite (Yampolskiy, 2015). A question of interest is “Which activities can minds perform during their lifetime?” This question is very broad, thus in this article restricted to “Which non-boring activities can minds perform?” The space of potential non-boring activities has been called by Yudkowsky “fun space”...

examining the fun factors and age differences in attitudes toward workplace fun in modern companies

this paper aims to examine the fun concept and age differences in attitudes toward workplace fun. the authors review the literature on workplace fun and generational theory. the fun in workplace was measured with karl et al.’s (2005) and generational cohort was measured by the respondents’ birth year using a sample of 296 workers at a industrial company in south west of tehran. according to res...

On Fun tions and Types

The Biology of Fun and the Fun of Biology

Biology is known for is being rather unpredictable; people often tell us we are a bit 'quirky', and they generally mean this as a compliment. This likely relates to the 'pleasure of novelty': it is a common experience that when something, even a great work of art, is experienced too often within a short period of time, the pleasure evoked strongly diminishes. The idea of 'fun' in work does not ...

Fun and supersymmetry

This is a combination of various notes on supersymmetry. The first half is an introduction to SUSY for beginners, while the rest of the document contains special topics that are of interest to the author.