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Swords and Armor: A Game Theory Thought Experiment

Note: this image does not belong to me; I found it on 4chan. It presents an interesting exercise, though, so I'm posting it here for the enjoyment of the Less Wrong community. For the sake of this thought experiment, assume that all characters have the same amount of HP, which is sufficiently large that random effects can be treated as being equal to their expected values. There are no NPC monsters, critical hits, or other mechanics; gameplay consists of two PCs getting into a duel, and fighting until one or the other loses. The winner is fully healed afterwards. Which sword and armor combination do you choose, and why?

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Brain-in-a-vat Trolley Question

Just saw this on another forum. I figured I'd repost it here, since it'd be interesting to see you guy's answer to it. > Consider the following case: > > On Twin Earth, a brain in a vat is at the wheel of a runaway trolley. There are only two...

Dec 30, 2012-11

Hypothetical scenario

One day, someone not a member of the Singularity Institute (and has publically stated that they don't believe in the necessity of ensuring all AI is Friendly) manages to build an AI. It promptly undergoes an intelligence explosion and sends kill-bots to massacre the vast majority of the upper echelons...

Feb 16, 2012-31

Second Life creators to attempt to create AI

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/02/philip-rosedale-ai.html http://www.lovemachineinc.com/ Should I feel bad for hoping they'll fail? I do not want to see the sort of unFriendly AI would be created after being raised on social interactions with pedophiles, Gorians, and furries. Seriously, those are some of the more prominent of the groups still on Second Life,...

Jan 9, 20114

Does anyone else find ROT13 spoilers as annoying as I do?

Every time I come across one, it annoys me. I have to copy the text, open a new tab to the ROT13 site, paste the text, and click the translate button. Compare this to something like a collapsable spoiler button-box where you press a button and it expands and expands...

Oct 23, 201012

Green consumers more likely to steal

Here's an article I found today, though it is a few months old; it seems to illustrate an interesting cognitive bias that I don't think I've seen mentioned before that might explain a good bit of hypocrisy people tend to have. > When Al Gore was caught running up huge...

Oct 23, 20109

Retirement leads to loss of cognitive abilities

Here's something I found after surfing a few links. Given the interest in intelligence augmentation and biological immortality here, I figured you guys would find it useful to know; I wasn't particularly planning on retiring (given biological immortality or uploading technologies), but if this is true, I definitely won't be...

Oct 14, 20102

1993 AT&T "You Will" ads

Here's something I found while wasting time on Youtube today. Sort of surprising how close they got to the truth, though of course the aesthetics are all wrong, and AT&T wasn't the company who brought them about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb0avfQme8&feature=grec_index

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Swords and Armor: A Game Theory Thought Experiment

Does anyone else find ROT13 spoilers as annoying as I do?

Green consumers more likely to steal

1993 AT&T "You Will" ads

nick012000

Brain-in-a-vat Trolley Question

Hypothetical scenario

Second Life creators to attempt to create AI

Does anyone else find ROT13 spoilers as annoying as I do?

Green consumers more likely to steal

Retirement leads to loss of cognitive abilities

1993 AT&T "You Will" ads

Swords and Armor: A Game Theory Thought Experiment

Does anyone else find ROT13 spoilers as annoying as I do?

Green consumers more likely to steal

1993 AT&T "You Will" ads

Brain-in-a-vat Trolley Question

Hypothetical scenario

Second Life creators to attempt to create AI

Does anyone else find ROT13 spoilers as annoying as I do?

Green consumers more likely to steal

Retirement leads to loss of cognitive abilities

1993 AT&T "You Will" ads