AdeleneDawner comments on Humans are not automatically strategic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 09 September 2010 04:01:19PM 2 points [-]

If you are really capable of playing Magic competitively if only you had the cards, etc., I would be glad to start you up, and you can pay me back whenever. But I would need to know that e.g. you are up-to-date on what decks/strategies work, tournament formalities (so you don't lose because of using the wrong "done with turn" indicator or tapping rotation angle), etc.

(I made this offer over a year ago, but was strongly criticized for having the proviso that Crono put his karma at stake to indicate seriousness and as a motivator.)

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 09 September 2010 04:29:27PM 1 point [-]

Erm...

...and I once calculated that it would cost me a few thousand dollars a year to play Magic: the Gathering competitively...

Unless Crono's disregarding his potential winnings, your question about whether he thinks he'd be able to earn money that way seems to have been answered.

Comment author: SilasBarta 09 September 2010 04:37:24PM 1 point [-]

Yes, but from earlier discussions he had suggested he'd be able to play professionally, so that's what I interpreted him to mean here, and the cost is gross rather than net, so he'd only need the first year's expenses to be self-sustaining.

So I was indeed sneaking in assumptions from earlier exchanges.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 09 September 2010 04:44:22PM 1 point [-]

If that is gross, sure. I did mention that he might be disregarding potential winnings. It seems odd to me that he'd word it that way in that case, though.