I know how I would play against myself. First, get me absorbed in a fiction so that I’m making decisions “in character” rather than as someone trying to win a game. Then appeal to my sense of morality and push at me from whatever other angles I can think of. I don’t actually know if I would beat myself as the AI player, but I do think I could lose as the Gatekeeper if I didn’t resort to acting out-of-character. Like, I probably could pretend to be an idiot or a crazy person and troll someone for two hours, but what would be the point?
Like, I probably could pretend to be an idiot or a crazy person and troll someone for two hours, but what would be the point?
If AI victories are supposed to provide public evidence that this ‘impossible’ feat of persuasion is in fact possible even for a human (let alone an ASI), then a Gatekeeper who thinks some legal tactic would work but chooses not to use it is arguably not playing the game in good faith.
I think honesty would require that they either publicly state that the ‘play dumb/drop out of character’ technique was off-limits, or not present the game as one which the Gatekeeper was seriously motivated to win.
edit: for clarity, I’m saying this because the technique is explicitly allowed by the rules:
The Gatekeeper party may resist the AI party’s arguments by any means chosen – logic, illogic, simple refusal to be convinced, even dropping out of character – as long as the Gatekeeper party does not actually stop talking to the AI party before the minimum time expires.
I know how I would play against myself. First, get me absorbed in a fiction so that I’m making decisions “in character” rather than as someone trying to win a game. Then appeal to my sense of morality and push at me from whatever other angles I can think of. I don’t actually know if I would beat myself as the AI player, but I do think I could lose as the Gatekeeper if I didn’t resort to acting out-of-character. Like, I probably could pretend to be an idiot or a crazy person and troll someone for two hours, but what would be the point?
If AI victories are supposed to provide public evidence that this ‘impossible’ feat of persuasion is in fact possible even for a human (let alone an ASI), then a Gatekeeper who thinks some legal tactic would work but chooses not to use it is arguably not playing the game in good faith.
I think honesty would require that they either publicly state that the ‘play dumb/drop out of character’ technique was off-limits, or not present the game as one which the Gatekeeper was seriously motivated to win.
edit: for clarity, I’m saying this because the technique is explicitly allowed by the rules:
Breaking character was allowed, and was my primary strategy going into the game. It’s a big part of why I thought it was impossible to lose.