NihilCredo comments on The Threat of Cryonics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 05 August 2010 06:43:42AM 9 points [-]

What a horrendous case of prisoner's dilemma...

It is a horrendous case of a sub-optimal equilibrium in a coordination game. You know, one of the examples of game theory that isn't the @#%@ Prisoner's Dilemma.

Comment author: NihilCredo 06 August 2010 12:35:10AM *  1 point [-]

I've been spending so much of my social time among people who treat swearing with complete nonchalance that I had forgotten how much power even a censored swearword can have in a setting where it is never used.