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Luke_A_Somers comments on Empiricism in Gameplay - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 16 February 2012 03:53:45PM *  1 point [-]

picture 1, take 1: Is this a trick question? It's, umm, freezing out there, I guess?.

picture 1, one minute later: Oh. Hi there. I totally would have seen you if you were moving.

Comment author: pedanterrific 16 February 2012 04:59:16PM 3 points [-]

If it had said "prey", not "threat", I wouldn't have wasted three minutes staring after I found it. I kept expecting a cleverly camouflaged guy with a rifle, or something.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 17 February 2012 01:01:28PM *  0 points [-]

I agree - one wolf (if that is a red wolf, and not a fox) isn't much of a threat if you know what you're doing, and I do - but back in the ancestral environment they might not have learned fear of humans, so it could be enough of a threat to earn the word. Even if it's a threat you can dispose of, you still must attend to it.

If it's a fox, you're perfectly safe, of course, unless it's rabid.

Comment author: MixedNuts 16 February 2012 09:21:53PM 0 points [-]

You eat carnivores‽

Comment author: pedanterrific 16 February 2012 10:06:05PM 0 points [-]

Everyone knows carnivore blood is the tastiest.

Comment author: MixedNuts 16 February 2012 04:52:22PM 0 points [-]

I'm confused. I detected very quickly the relevant area (though I remained unsure it was it), but it took me about ten minutes to identify the object.

And yeah, that's why predators usually don't move before they pounce.

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