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As explained it doesn't fit the definition given: playing house does not have "definite rules" and does not have a defined beginning/end.
okay, playing house isn't actually a coherent category. there are ways to play house that have carse-jargon-“definite rules” and have a carse-jargon-defined-beginning&end, and there are ways to play house that don't. most instances of playing house are of the former type, likely including your experiences.
carse uses words in weird ways.
It makes no sense to talk about optimizing on an infinite game.
If I get the difference between finite and infinite games... then I'm afraid I disagree.
Take, for example, the difference between "baseball" and "playing house".
Baseball is clearly a finite game - it makes sense to talk about a "winner" of baseball. Contrariwise, it makes no sense to talk about a "winner" of playing house - so I'd conclude that the latter is an infinite game.
From my own experience of "playing house" as a girl, I'd say there are definite candidates for optimisation - especially when playing with others. The most common (in my experience) being to optimise the average happiness level of each of the players (by sharing, avoiding or resolving disagreements etc).
Even if nobody "wins" you can still "play better" against this optimisation target.
carse uses words in weird ways. in carse jargon, playing house is a finite game.
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The Value of Those in Effective Altruism
Losing a typical EA ... decreasing ~1000 utilons to ~3.5, so a ~28500% reduction per person lost.
You seem to be exaggerating a bit here: that's a 99.65% reduction. Hope it's the only inaccuracy in your estimates!
In retrospect, I'm kind of glad that my plan to make a Quirrell-tulpa never got off the ground.
afaict the quirrell tulpa is one of the more common types of tulpas. if you have one, do not use it. it is secretly voldemort and will destroy your soul.
In response to
My Naturalistic Awakening
When you say “a science-fiction story”, I am curious if it ever was finished. Is it HPMOR?
In response to
An overview of the mental model theory
Reading this was a bit annoying:
Only one statement about a hand of cards is true:
There is a King or Ace or both.
There is a Queen or Ace or both.
Which is more likely, King or Ace?
... The majority of people respond that the Ace is more likely to occur, but this is logically incorrect.
It is just communicating badly https://xkcd.com/169/ . In a common parse, Ace is more likely to occur. It would be more likely to be parsed as you intended if you had said
Only one of the following premises is true about a particular hand of cards:
(like you did on the next question!)
My first comment ever on this site promptly gets downvoted without explanation. If you disagree with something I said, at least speak up and say why.
you're not really wrong but you're missing the point
We think that WBE are safe, in that they are unlikely to be able to produce a single message starting an optimisation process taking over the universe.
You do have to be being careful not to give it too much computation time: http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/
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