I’m afraid I find the challenge statement inconsistent and confusing.
First you say “hurled into existence, facing an empty universe”. Then you talk about things like uncomfortable chairs and math olympiad scores. And then you say “in your life”. Are you looking for each participant to identify a specific problem they actually face? Or one a hypothetical person might face? Or one someone in an otherwise empty universe might face?
I think you intend the first of those. But the rhetorical flourishes around the challenge all seem to point in other directions, so I want to check.
Thanks. (I see that once again I have made an answer where I intended to make a comment. LW devs, if any are reading this: maybe consider whether there’s a way to make this mistake harder to make? Though it’s possible that I’m just uniquely careless and no one else has the same problem.)
I’m afraid I find the challenge statement inconsistent and confusing.
First you say “hurled into existence, facing an empty universe”. Then you talk about things like uncomfortable chairs and math olympiad scores. And then you say “in your life”. Are you looking for each participant to identify a specific problem they actually face? Or one a hypothetical person might face? Or one someone in an otherwise empty universe might face?
I think you intend the first of those. But the rhetorical flourishes around the challenge all seem to point in other directions, so I want to check.
I intend the first one. I’ll edit the flourishes to clarify!
Thanks. (I see that once again I have made an answer where I intended to make a comment. LW devs, if any are reading this: maybe consider whether there’s a way to make this mistake harder to make? Though it’s possible that I’m just uniquely careless and no one else has the same problem.)
(Moved it!)
Thanks!
I found it confusing as well (but decided it had to be the first since it wouldn’t otherwise be called ‘applied babble’).