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I'm not really familiar with DA beyond the 2 posts and knowing Vaniver. That being said, thoughts that came to mind as I read.
0. This just seems like a standard coordination problem that I would expect most rationalists to be familiar with. Is there some reason you needed an entirely new analogy? I would not have predicted that out of ~12 reasonably dedicated rationalists, more than 1 would not have this idea as a Thing That Exists In One's Mind.
1. Seems like a good suggestion that I would not have thought of ahead of time, but seems obvious in retrospect.
2. I guess I didn't realize how much you... (read more)
" Thankfully, the guy who took over running Austin's LW meetup group is doing a better job of it than I ever did, and it's growing "
I appreciate the confidence, though I'm not entirely sure how much of that is stuff I did.
For the record, I play Magic regularly and have for a long time, and I didn't get it. I'm still not sure to what extent the colors really align with the descriptions given by either Duncan or Zvi.
The red knight values individual sovereignty, yes, but is not risk-averse or cautious. Red is certainly capable of forming armies that follow a leader.
Black doesn't particularly care about "convincing arguments."
Green could be a plant-like thing that's hard to kill, but it could also be a very fragile plant that shrivels up and dies. Or judgy, racist elves, or whatever.
Perhaps these are not so much absolute representations, as the representation of each color that is most likely to appear in a rationalist house (basically, these are all X/u knights, not pure X knights).