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philh comments on Rationalist fiction: a Slice of Life IN HELL - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: Ritalin 25 March 2014 05:02PM

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Comment author: philh 26 March 2014 02:33:04PM 2 points [-]

After learning the constant rule, you find a ruleset that doesn't seem too awful, and then don't learn it.

Hell is trying to abstain from pattern matching.

Comment author: JacekLach 28 March 2014 09:07:22PM *  1 point [-]

Reminds me of talesofmu. Your strategy looks like trying to play the GM, and is likely to get you punished :)

Comment author: ete 27 March 2014 12:39:53PM 1 point [-]

Wouldn't that count as learning a rule and cause the meta-level rules to change to something worse if you started using your knowledge to make it more tolerable?

Comment author: David_Gerard 29 March 2014 10:50:39AM -1 points [-]

it might do. You'd have to check by writing it, of course.