Is the troll she smelled on the platform
also Hermione?
Measure
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Measure’s Shortform
This is delightful.
I noticed [inconsistency]. Also [minor typo]. Looking forward to seeing the rest.
“Evading Mind Control”
This is a duplicate of your 10⁄15 post.
I liked the original title better :)
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It seemed to me that “actually trying”—aiming the full force of your being at the solution of a problem you care about—is self-evidently motivating and requires zero extra justification if you care about the problem.
This is basically my mindset as well. In situations where I would ask “Why is nobody actually trying?” it would mean something like “I wish everyone else would care about this outcome as much as I do.” If people aren’t optimizing for results, they could be optimizing for appearance of effort (which would in some circumstances look like optimizing for pain), or they could be optimizing for something else entirely, such as enjoying themselves, personal growth, or impressing a particular person or group.
The specific “happiness means you’re not trying hard enough” mentally is not one I remember encountering, though I also haven’t had that concept available as a hypothesis, and my prior was against it since it seemed so obviously confused, so maybe I just didn’t recognize it when I saw it.
It wasn’t worth my time/mental effort to respond to this survey in open-ended form, but it would be interesting to see the results from a multiple-choice version.
Ah, makes sense. I guess I just need to get used to the interface.
My understanding is that EBMB doesn’t directly feed off the clones—they mutually cooperate until round 90, so EBMB helps them as much as they help it. It’s just that the clones start attacking everyone else in the midgame and leave EBMB alone while EBMB continues to cooperate with everyone. Thus the clone army and the rest of the pack tear each other down while EBMB pulls ahead.
A larger clone share would indeed end up benefitting EBMB relative to MB, but if ASTB is more effective than the clones in the early game, I’m not sure its presence in the midgame would be more helpful to the clones than a typical chaos or silly bot. I guess it depends on how effectively the clones’ aggression can convince ASTB to fold. The clones may or may not get enough back to compensate for their reduced share in the early game.
I think it will depend on how long ASTB survives. Even with MeasureBot feeding on it, ASTB does very well in the early game against many of the silly bots. It folds to attackers and cooperates with the clones and other cooperators. However, I still expect (80%) that EBMB will pull ahead before round 100. As the clones become more aggressive in the midgame, they start fighting with MeasureBot while continuing to cooperate with EBMB.
I’ve been seeing an intermittent bug on a few of these where tapping to record an answer causes the question text to disappear. Sometimes scrolling away and back fixes it.
Chrome browser on Android phone.
After round 100, MeasureBot ensures that it is never outscored by its opponent (it always starts 3, and keeps playing 3 until symmetry is broken by the opponent). If two or more bots have this behavior in the endgame, they quickly destroy each other until only one remains.
It looks like people can change their predictions after they initially submit them. Is this history recorded somewhere, or just the current distribution?
Is there an option to have people “lock in” their answer? (Maybe they can still edit/delete for a short time after they submit or before a cutoff date/time)
Is there a way to see in one place all the predictions I’ve submitted an answer to?
The seem to be working/displaying fine for me at this time.
...stop distribution of the virus to New York...
I assume you meant to say vaccine here.
This alternate timeline will conclude on November 14, at 5 pm Pacific Time.
It’s obvious there’s some time travel going on, but I’m still confused.
What happens if there’s a market for “shares” and each resident’s preferences are weighted by their number of shares?
At least until the silly bots start getting eliminated ASTB is indeed only a small boost for MeasureBot, but MeasureBot is still only a small detriment to ASTB (currently about 4% of ASTB’s matches). ASTB also gets near-perfect performance against most of the silly bots, and it plays a combination of invert and tit-for-tat against anything it can’t simulate. I expect ASTB to continue doing fairly well against the rest of the pack despite MeasureBot’s exploitation of it (I think ASTB is around 9th place right now).
As more of the silly bots get eliminated, I think ASTB will transfer most of it’s population-share to MeasureBot, but that might take some time unless MeasureBot gets a large enough early lead to become a significant proportion of ASTB’s matches.
Is there a name for this mental state I sometimes find myself in after reading for a while? My breathing slows, I start to feel very “focused”, and my physical perceptions start to blur. The book or screen I’m reading seems simultaneously both small/near and huge/far, my limbs feel simultaneously heavy and weightless, and time seems to be simultaneously slowing down and rushing forward. Has anyone here experienced this, and do you know what it’s called?