Actually, come to think of it, someone did win once by immediately pushing over everyone else. (Probably the best use of Rationality in a game of Rationalist One-Foot that I’ve seen)
I’m also curious about that, although not really complaining. I think it’s hilarious that my collective posts on Rationalist One-Foot have netted me 29 Karma so far.
(The other highly upvoted comment relating to Rationalist One-Foot was presumably both funny AND actually related to rationality. This one I assume was upvoted solely for comedic value. I actually didn’t think it was all that funny, but it may have benefitted from being a relatively unique type of humor on Less Wrong, and if others were to attempt to replicate it it would quickly drop off in value)
Oh, sorry. When I tried googling it, to make sure it was figure-outable, the explanation was the first hit. I guess that must be due to a history-filter on my end.
Oh, that actually was an early hit, but the title of the entry wasn’t the same as the actual term, and a lot of other similar Japanese words came up that made it hard to figure out what I was supposed to be looking for.
It occurs to me that I was actually mixing three languages using an American idiom. (The “-fu” was a la “kung-fu”, “wire-fu” etc., and comes from the Chinese.) This is perhaps not precisely fair to expect anyone but Omega to get right off the bat.
So really, the conclusion is: I am just not very good at this ‘communication’ thing.
I got that the “fu” part was tacked on, but it wasn’t an existing expression (whereas Google-Fu shows up immediately), and the word tsukkomi brings up the wikipedia article on Manzai, which isn’t immediately obviously related.
No, you win by standing on one foot for a very long time.
Actually, come to think of it, someone did win once by immediately pushing over everyone else. (Probably the best use of Rationality in a game of Rationalist One-Foot that I’ve seen)
Curious why this got ten upvotes.
I’m also curious about that, although not really complaining. I think it’s hilarious that my collective posts on Rationalist One-Foot have netted me 29 Karma so far.
(The other highly upvoted comment relating to Rationalist One-Foot was presumably both funny AND actually related to rationality. This one I assume was upvoted solely for comedic value. I actually didn’t think it was all that funny, but it may have benefitted from being a relatively unique type of humor on Less Wrong, and if others were to attempt to replicate it it would quickly drop off in value)
Your tsukkomi-fu is strong.
I have no idea what that means, and google didn’t help.
Oh, sorry. When I tried googling it, to make sure it was figure-outable, the explanation was the first hit. I guess that must be due to a history-filter on my end.
Oh, that actually was an early hit, but the title of the entry wasn’t the same as the actual term, and a lot of other similar Japanese words came up that made it hard to figure out what I was supposed to be looking for.
It occurs to me that I was actually mixing three languages using an American idiom. (The “-fu” was a la “kung-fu”, “wire-fu” etc., and comes from the Chinese.) This is perhaps not precisely fair to expect anyone but Omega to get right off the bat.
So really, the conclusion is: I am just not very good at this ‘communication’ thing.
I got that the “fu” part was tacked on, but it wasn’t an existing expression (whereas Google-Fu shows up immediately), and the word tsukkomi brings up the wikipedia article on Manzai, which isn’t immediately obviously related.