Dead Comment
I can't find a good reason for computers playing videogames. I read another comment saying that they could be your buddies in an adventure game... what's the point? The fun is to play with other people. We already are able to play with bots (different algorithms rule them), so I can't see why someone would prefer this over them.
About traslating this from a virtual world to the real world... I can't imagine who would think it's a good idea to give this type of freedom to machines in a physical world, were consequences are way riskier than something digital (and yes, digitally they could empty your bank account, physically they could kill someone. One is much worser than the other).
Dead Comment
They are ideas from people who don't like Anthropocenterism, which Integrated Information Theory is also opposed to.
It's worth noting that all of the people who believe in any of this are philosophical wingcucks like Nick Land.
Logging is at the application level. Log just enough that you can replicate a problem, usually it means just the input.
The rest is marketing.
Latency Uptime Throughput
And if you're working with a distributed system, you should really be using metrics to track the health of your system at the application level.
Money is rarely an incentive for writing a textbook, but it's certainly important for the brilliant and under-appreciated people who work in publishing, maintaining the fragile existence of our greatest technology: the book.
So maybe, like art, texts will become sheer passion projects - even technical texts. Otherwise, I'm sure LLMs will be able to replace their usefulness soon.