Elo comments on The ganch gamble - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Elo 20 May 2015 12:15:49PM 0 points [-]

emphasising again - cute story.

The advantage of creative writing is you get to write all the characters. and all the scenarios and re-write so that this character wins and that character loses. While we like to think we discovered the cleverness as the villagers did; in reality the story was created to boast the writers ability to demonstrate this piece of cleverness. not really as a reflection on the real world...