CuSithBell comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CuSithBell 21 May 2012 09:19:15PM 2 points [-]

Attach a number to something and people will try to modify it. MMOs have known this for a while. (An amusing take.)

The Kill Everyone Project was almost exactly this. Progress Quest and Parameters are other takes on a similar concept (though Parameters is actually fairly interesting, if you think of it as an abstract puzzle).

Comment author: JoshuaZ 21 May 2012 09:30:53PM 2 points [-]

The Kill Everyone Project was almost exactly this

That's... sort of horrifying in a hilarious way.

Comment author: CuSithBell 23 May 2012 06:14:29PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, it's like staring into the void.