IIRC the same encounters are present at the macro level—eg which enemies and cards are available. But there’s still a luck element there as one player may choose to go left and the other right, without either direction giving evidence in advance about which has better rewards.
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Seconding Slay the Spire, though it might be slightly too easy to win on the first attempt (I did and I’m not a god gamer). An advantage of StS is that you can specify the RNG seed, so you could give everyone the same test.
FTL (another roguelite) on easy difficulty also might work, though it’s realtime with pause which might be tricky for less experienced gamers.
Both of these are games that benefit a lot from thoughtfulness and careful risk management.
Personally I’m enjoying Palworld (playing for “free” on Game Pass) and I doubt it would have kept such a high level of concurrent players/interest even after a few days if it wasn’t fun at all and only a marketing gimmick. It’s a case where the whole of the core gameplay loop is more appealing than you’d think by just looking at the somewhat incongruous collection of parts. (How long the fun lasts is another question).
edit: I’d agree that the CEO may be overstating how much of a “genius” his employees are but I do think the pal designs are pretty good if not especially original. And the post seems to be more about his relief and gratitude at getting a difficult project over the line rather than objective claims.
If you hire UI designers they have to do something to justify their salaries. If the existing UI can’t be easily improved any further, they will instead make it worse.
Also I agree that the above mentioned marginal user thing is significant.
Say that in each case where a Beauty and a Visitor meet each other, a wild Bookmaker appears and offers each of them a chance to bet on what was the outcome of the coinflip. If they have different subjective odds then they will choose to make different bets (depending on the odds offered) and one will be more profitable than the other—so in that sense at least one of them is wrong. Or am I missing something?
I’ve mostly heard people talking about l-theanine as something to complement caffeine rather than to take by itself.
The question is too broad to give a non-boring answer without knowing a bit more about you and your circumstances.
What is the hardest part of AI alignment?
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On a recent trip to China I found the trend there—at least for fancy meals—is low carb, with few noodles and often no rice at all.
Doesn’t example 3 show that one and two are actually the same? What difference does it make whether you start inside or outside the room?
At a glance meta-philosophy sounds similar to the problem of what is good, which is normally considered to be within the bounds of regular philosophy. (And to the extent that people avoid talking about it I think it’s because the problem of good is on a deep enough level inherently subjective and therefore political, and they want to focus on technical problem solving rather than political persuasion)
What’s an example of an important practical problem you believe can only be solved by meta-philosophy?
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In general how can you know whether and how much something has experiences?
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I think with things like the nature of perception you could say there’s a natural incomparability because you couldn’t (seemingly) experience someone else’s perceptions without translating them into structures your brain can parse. But I’m not very sure on this.
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HPoC is demanding a justification of experience from within a world in which everything is just experiences. Of course it can’t be answered!
I think I see what you’re saying and I do suspect that experience might be too fundamentally subjective to have a clear objective explanation, but I also think it’s premature to give up on the question until we’ve further investigated and explained the objective correlates of consciousness or lack thereof—like blindsight, pain asymbolia, or the fact that we’re talking about it right now.
And does “everything is just experiences” mean that a rock has experiences? Does it have an infinite number of different ones? Is your red, like, the same as my red, dude? Being able to convincingly answer questions like these is part of what it would mean to me to solve the Hard Problem.
Some interesting examples but this seems to be yet another take that claims to solve/dissolve consciousness by simply ignoring the Hard Problem.
As a counterpoint I found Oppenheimer straightforwardly enjoyable and I’m not sure what you’re getting at when you say otherwise. I would have a preferred a little more science and a little less legal drama, but the latter was still interesting and (more importantly) well presented.
Skinwalker Rancher Jay Strattan was Grusch’s boss in the military: see Congress UFO Hearing—It’s even crazier than you think—YouTube from about 18 minutes.
For small round things and holes, maybe it’s related to the digit 0 being small, round, and having a hole, while also being a similar kind of empty/null case as the empty string?