So I was thinking about what would work on me, and also how I would try to effectively play the AI and I have a hypothesis about how EY won some of these games.

Uh. I think he told a good story.

We already have evidence of him, you know, telling good stories. Also, I was thinking that if I were trying to tell effective stories, I would make them really personal. Hence the secret logs.

Or I could be completely wrong and just projecting my own mind onto the situation, but anyway I think stories are the way to go in this experiment. Reasonable arguments are too easy for the gatekeeper to avoid trollfully which then make them even less invested in the set-up of the game, and therefore even more trollful, etc.