Comment author: FiftyTwo 19 February 2014 03:17:13AM 0 points [-]

Did this ever come to fruition?

Comment author: WrongBot 25 February 2014 07:53:09PM 0 points [-]

Hahahaha, nope.

Comment author: WrongBot 07 December 2013 12:13:12AM 4 points [-]

I'm planning to run a rationality-friendly table-top roleplaying game over IRC and am soliciting players.

The system is Unknown Armies, a game of postmodern magic set in a creepier, weirder version of our own world. Expect to investigate crimes, decipher the methods behind occult rituals, interpret symbols, and slowly go mad. This particular game will follow the misadventures of a group of fast food employees working for an occult cabal (well, more like a mailing list) that wants to make the world a better place.

Sessions will be 3-4 hours once a week over IRC or google hangouts or skype or whatever people are most comfortable with. Slots for two-three players, email me at sburnstein@gmail.com if you're interested or if I can answer any questions about the game.

Comment author: WrongBot 06 September 2013 04:20:28PM 1 point [-]

It may be possible to take advantage of multiple levels of reality within the game itself to confuse or trick the gatekeeper. For instance, must the experiment only be set in one world? Can there not be multiple layers of reality within the world you create? I feel that elaborating on this any further is dangerous. Think carefully about what this advice is trying to imply.

This is a pretty clever way of defeating precommitments. (Assuming I'm drawing the correct inferences.) How central was this tactic to your approach, if you're willing to comment?

Comment author: kilobug 05 July 2013 05:27:11PM 1 point [-]

There is a very significant risk that without Hermione, Harry will become a bad guy. That's what the Hat warned him about, and we have reasons to think that it's why Quirrelmort tried to remove Hermione from Harry. And that's what the prophecies seem to be warning about.

Comment author: WrongBot 05 July 2013 07:27:25PM 1 point [-]

The bad guy(s) relative to Harry. Hermione coming back is important whichever way his morality goes.

Comment author: jaibot 05 July 2013 03:46:09AM 0 points [-]

I continue to have at least 30% confidence that Hermione was never dead. There are too many would-be-conclusive bits of evidence just barely out of reach.

Comment author: WrongBot 05 July 2013 03:54:26AM 10 points [-]

I'm about 95% confident Eliezer wouldn't do such a thing.

Comment author: Dorikka 04 July 2013 08:23:43PM 2 points [-]

I sorta feel that I know what you're getting at, but "Hermione lives" seems like a precondition for "Harry wins", no?

Comment author: WrongBot 04 July 2013 08:46:36PM 0 points [-]

By "wins" I just meant "beats the bad guy(s)".

Comment author: WrongBot 04 July 2013 05:19:25PM 2 points [-]

Quirrell is That Fucker.

Heavy spoilers for Nonjon's excellent A Black Comedy follow.

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Comment author: WrongBot 04 July 2013 05:12:43PM 1 point [-]

Hermione will be resurrected before the conclusion of this story.

(Given that Harry wins and souls aren't real.)

Comment author: WrongBot 28 June 2013 03:47:38AM 16 points [-]

PSA: There is an actual physical sensation that accompanies religious experiences. If you feel the presence of a being of awesome power and an unusual sensation of... fullness?... in your chest, don't panic or starting believing in a god or anything crazy.

It's a physiological thing that happens to people, especially in altered states (drugs, sleep deprivation, etc.), and it doesn't mean anything.

Comment author: Gastogh 24 February 2013 08:52:23AM 0 points [-]
  1. Are there other values that, if we traded them off, might make MFAI much easier?

I don't understand this question. Is it somehow not trivially obvious that the more values you remove from the equation (starting with "complexity"), the easier things become?

Comment author: WrongBot 24 February 2013 09:38:40PM *  0 points [-]

Right, but not all trade-offs are equal. Thinking-rainbows-are-pretty and self-determination are worth different amounts.

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