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There's nothing to worry about. We were presented with the same challenge in Three Worlds Collide. If we don't succeed, we will just get a false ending instead of a true ending.
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So, after what happened.. turns out I was both wrong and right.
If a viable solution is posted before 12:01AM Pacific Time (8:01AM UTC) on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015, the story will continue to Ch. 121.
Otherwise you will get a shorter and sadder ending.
So failure would have just meant the end, and yet there was nothing to worry about: the much larger audience managed to figure out a space of much more effective solutions, along with a much more hilarious space of failures.
I got this right, but ended up having to invent notation to keep track of the indirection in the last segment.
This is also the case for myself. I would be very impressed by anyone who did not have to do this.
The trick is to evaluate right to left.
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Prisoner's Dilemma (with visible source code) Tournament
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What scaffolding are you going to use for the tests? (For example: #!racket seems to be implied. I'd like to be sure of all of your details.)
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[SEQ RERUN] Changing Emotions
... and then theres ¡>.<¡ , that special embarrassment that all of our new emotions have smilies for names.
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Is Omega Impossible? Can we even ask?
Is Omega Impossible?
No, Omega is possible. I have implemented Newcomb's Game as a demonstration. This is not a probabilistic simulation, this omega is never wrong.
It's really very obvious if you think about it like a game designer. To the obvious objection: Would a more sophisticated Omega be any different in practice?
For my next trick, I shall have an omnipotent being create an immovable object and then move it.
edit: sorry about the bugs. it's rather embarrassing, i have not used these libraries in ages.
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I think he meant that in case of failure, the happy ending will simply become the "false ending" instead of the "true ending". Since we get both either way, there really isn't a difference.
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Yes. The exact phrasing of the challenge was:
With a sudden motion, the Confessor's arm swept out...
... and anesthetized the Lord Pilot.
... [This option will become the True Ending only if someone suggests it in the comments before the previous ending is posted tomorrow. Otherwise, the first ending is the True one.]
Is there anyone keeping a history of the story? I suspect there are some clues to be gleamed from the edits.
(Note: I originally specifically asked for what was chapter 76 but now 77, but I realized that the thing I was looking for was there all along. Regardless I am still interested in a history.)
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