gjm comments on Rationality Cardinality - LessWrong

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Comment author: Jacobian 03 October 2015 04:41:13PM *  6 points [-]

Spent about 20 minutes playing online, I have some technical notes and general impressions.

Technical (skip this if you're not Jimrandomh):

  • The timer feels way too long, especially as people get to know the cards better and don't have to read all of them.
  • When choosing card pairs they are displayed in long rows, so for 3 people someone's first and second cards are on different rows. That's very unintuitive. Maybe put the pairs in separated columns?
  • When judging, seeing the timing of the cards coming out can skew the judgement, and also makes it easy to guess which card is the control.
  • The website works smoothly, well done!

Here are my main takeaways:

  • The cards are excellent, a lot of them are either very funny or are doing a good job explaining things quickly. For some, it's hard to tell which :)
  • Unfortunately, the jokes that happen during play itself aren't funny at all compared to the cards. A lot of times there isn't a single card that will give a "funny" answer, am I supposed to choose the logically appropriate one instead, then? I wonder if I'd be more likely to buy the best cards as a poster than as a card game.

I'm going to try and invite some non-LW friends to play, see if they like it or run away screaming in confusion.

Comment author: gjm 05 October 2015 01:09:34PM 0 points [-]

I've played a couple of games. I basically agree with all of that. On the last point: It felt like I had a genuinely funny card to play maybe 20% of the time (maybe less), and a (at-least-semi-)seriously appropriate one maybe 30% of the time or so.