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Desrtopa comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 15, chapter 84 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Desrtopa 12 April 2012 01:31:13AM 12 points [-]

Put yourself in his place and his personality, what would you do? I'd probably get bored and set about creating the only thing I don't have: a worthy adversary.

I wouldn't. Sign me up for unworthy adversaries all the way.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 April 2012 08:58:59AM 1 point [-]

This violates fun theory if the adversaries are really unworthy.

Comment author: Desrtopa 12 April 2012 12:43:38PM 3 points [-]

I would do other things for fun than risk losing.

Comment author: kilobug 12 April 2012 04:17:05PM 1 point [-]

In my understanding of fun theory, you have worthy adversaries, but low consequences in case of failure. Like a video game, where if you lose, you lose a few hours of gaming at worse. Not that if you lose, you end up in Azkaban feeding the Dementors.

At least for myself, I like hard games, not easy ones, but I like it when defeat isn't too severe; I do sometimes play games in "iron will" mode (no saving, if you lose, restart all from the beginning), but not often, it's really the upper limit to what I accept when losing.

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