I'm going crazy with how awesome this'd be, but I'll probably not be able to play due to timezones and lack of time. And also because I tend to get to fall into all SORTS of failure modes when trying to roleplay online and ruin things for everyone. :( Fuuuuuuuuuuu
If you can find a way that works regardless of timezone and that keeps things slow, I'll be all over this. Some other suggested play by post, which might work but don't tend to work well with systems intended for face-to-face.
P.S: damn you for linking TV tropes
The current provisional plan is for you, me, Raw_Power, and Konkvistador to play a game of Shock: using Play-by-Post.
I thought maybe playing RPG's might help us get to know each other outside meet-ups. Specifically, I found this particular game of interest to this community: it is in many ways the antithesis of everything we stand for... which is why I think we rationalists, of all people, would appreciate it the most. It might also be a useful tool for elaborating collective thought experiments in a playful way (among many other things, it's one of the few gaming systems where roleplaying an artificial superintelligence trying to break out into the real world would be a perfectly plausible and context-relevant and plot-justifiable scenario), and help us expand and explore our idea-space further and deeper. Anyone interested in starting a game somewhere?
Other RPG's and suggestions are of course absolutely welcome.