I have been playing the card game Hanabi one hell of a lot recently, and I strongly recommend it to the LW community.
Hanabi is an abstract, cooperative game with limited information. And it’s practically a tutorial in rational thinking in a group. Extrapolating unstated facts from other players’ belief states is essential: “X did something that doesn’t make sense given what I know; what is it that X knows but I don’t, under which that action makes sense?” So, for that matter, is a consequentialist view of communication: “If I tell X the fact P, what will they do? Not what will they believe or know, but what actions should I expect they will take?”
Two people I’ve played with have told me that the game has positively affected their understanding of communication.
Seconding too. I’ve played in very small groups (~3), and the game usually stabilizes into predictable strategies (1 discards, 2 gives information, 3 puts down, and after a while switch between 2 and 3). Larger groups are probably messier and funnier, but nonetheless, very instructive.
I have been playing the card game Hanabi one hell of a lot recently, and I strongly recommend it to the LW community.
Hanabi is an abstract, cooperative game with limited information. And it’s practically a tutorial in rational thinking in a group. Extrapolating unstated facts from other players’ belief states is essential: “X did something that doesn’t make sense given what I know; what is it that X knows but I don’t, under which that action makes sense?” So, for that matter, is a consequentialist view of communication: “If I tell X the fact P, what will they do? Not what will they believe or know, but what actions should I expect they will take?”
Two people I’ve played with have told me that the game has positively affected their understanding of communication.
Seconding too.
I’ve played in very small groups (~3), and the game usually stabilizes into predictable strategies (1 discards, 2 gives information, 3 puts down, and after a while switch between 2 and 3). Larger groups are probably messier and funnier, but nonetheless, very instructive.
Seconding this recommendation.