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Comment author: David_Gerard 14 May 2014 06:49:54PM 0 points [-]

"Super Rationality Adventure Pals the Saturday morning cartoon! On 1080p from a BitTorrent near you." Please post plotlines and excerpts.

[an old comment I thought I'd revive.]

Comment author: Manfred 15 May 2014 01:01:55AM 1 point [-]

Conscientiousness: Alice keeps putting off a project, since she knows it'll only take an hour (say, fixing a roof - after all, you only need to start an hour before the rainstorm). Bob just does it. Alice gets rained on.

Coonscientiousness: Alice and Bob's town is slowly invaded by a herd of raccoons. Alice looks up how to deal with raccoons, asks for advice, and looks for successful people and copies them. Bob just does what he thinks of first, yelling at them to stay away from his garden, until he gets to tired and raccoons eat all his vegetables.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 May 2014 01:33:07AM 1 point [-]

herd of raccoons

Please, either 'a gaze of raccoons' or 'a nursery of raccoons'.

Comment author: DanielLC 15 May 2014 11:01:31PM 1 point [-]

The moral of the episode: a group of raccoons is called a "gaze" or "nursery".

The More You Know

Comment author: Lumifer 15 May 2014 02:50:40PM 0 points [-]

Alice and Bob's town is slowly invaded by a herd of raccoons.

Zombie raccoons!

Comment author: Nornagest 14 May 2014 07:50:51PM 1 point [-]

I'd settle for a well-executed cartoon adaptation of Pratchett's Tiffany Aching books. Almost as good in terms of rationality, and a lot more marketable.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 15 May 2014 01:03:03AM *  0 points [-]

Steal the plotline of "Feeling Pinkie Keen" from My Little Pony and fix the ending so instead of being about taking things on faith, it's about updating on the cumulatively overwhelming evidence that the quirky character's predictive ability actually works.

Comment author: Transfuturist 18 May 2014 02:04:15AM 0 points [-]

It's not about taking things on faith, it's about accepting that you don't have to know the inner workings of a model to realize that it's a good predictor.

Or is that what you just said? I guess I need to watch the episode again, the moral must be different than what I remember.