Gam­ing (videogames/​table­top)

Co­hab­itive Games so Far

The point of a game is not to win, and you shouldn’t even pre­tend that it is

Take­aways from the In­tel­li­gence Ris­ing RPG

Recom­mend­ing Un­der­stand, a Game about Discern­ing the Rules

Ra­tion­al­ity Cardinality

Two AI-risk-re­lated game de­sign ideas

Balanc­ing Games

Race for the Galaxy: 9 Choose 6

Plague in As­sas­sin’s Creed Odyssey

Meta AI an­nounces Cicero: Hu­man-Level Di­plo­macy play (with di­alogue)

AI takeover table­top RPG: “The Treach­er­ous Turn”

The AI Safety Game (UPDATED)

Ideal Chess—drop chess perfected

“Stuck In The Mid­dle With Bruce”

Pal­world de­vel­op­ment blog post

Com­pet­i­tive, Co­op­er­a­tive, and Cohabitive

video games > IQ tests

Di­plo­macy as a Game The­ory Laboratory

SOMA—A story about Consciousness

Re­cruit­ing for es­ports experiment

Ar­ti­fact: What Went Wrong?

Fun The­ory in EverQuest

The Devil You Know

Fea­tures and Antifeatures

5x5 Go Board

Spoiler-Free Re­view: Orwell

Spoiler-Free Re­view: As­sas­sin’s Creed Odyssey

Puz­zle Games

Why Go is a Bet­ter Game than Chess

A gam­ing group for ra­tio­nal­ity-aware people

Game Re­view: This Mer­chant Life

[Question] Do hu­mans still provide value in cor­re­spon­dence chess?

Bet­ter Quiddler

Align­ment as Game Design

Spoiler-Free Re­view: Across the Obelisk

What Games Th­ese Days?

A Game About AI Align­ment (& Meta-Ethics): What Are the Must Haves?

Galaxy Trucker Needs a New Se­cond Half

Sim­ple 5x5 Go

Pret­tified AI Safety Game Cards

Marvel Snap: Phase 1

Les­sons on Value of In­for­ma­tion From Civ

Linkpost: M21 Re­view: We Have Normality

Spoiler-Free Re­view: Hori­zon Zero Dawn

Frac­tional Resignation

Small Go Boards

The Treach­er­ous Turn is finished! (AI-takeover-themed table­top RPG)

[Question] A game de­signed to beat AI?

I didn’t think I’d take the time to build this cal­ibra­tion train­ing game, but with web­sim it took roughly 30 sec­onds, so here it is!

Re­lease: Op­ti­mal Weave (P1): A Pro­to­type Co­hab­itive Game

One-shot strat­egy games?

Every­thing I ever needed to know, I learned from World of War­craft: In­cen­tives and rewards

Univer­sal Paperclips

Chess As The Model Game

I’m mak­ing a ttrpg about life in an in­ten­tional com­mu­nity dur­ing the last year be­fore the Sin­gu­lar­ity

“The Heart of Gam­ing is the Power Fan­tasy”, and Co­hab­itive Games

Six Small Co­hab­itive Games

An Ex­er­cise in Ra­tional Co­op­er­a­tion and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion: Let’s Play Hanabi

[Linkpost] Teach­ing Para­dox, Europa Univer­alis IV, Part I: State of Play

Si­mul­ta­neous Ran­dom­ized Chess

Chaos In­vest­ments v0.31

Board Game Theory

Spoiler-Free Re­view: Roguebook

[Question] What games are us­ing the con­cept of a Schel­ling point?

Where do your eyes go?

See­ing Through the Eyes of the Algorithm

No Really, There Are No Rules!

Spoiler-Free Re­view: Death and Taxes

The Mind: Board Game Review

Le­gends of Runeterra: Early Review

Train­ing Ra­tion­al­ity through Deckbuilders

The Un­rea­son­able Fea­si­bil­ity Of Play­ing Chess Un­der The Influence

Re­view: Artifact

Two Zendo-in­spired games

Just for fun—let’s play a game.

Arthur Chu: Jeop­ardy! cham­pion through ex­em­plary rationality

The Con­trols are Ly­ing: A Note on the Memetic Hazards of Video Games [Link]

Cloudy With a Chance of Meat­balls PS3 Review

Linkpost: A Com­pre­hen­sive Re­view of Iko­ria, Lair of Behemoths

The time I got re­ally into poker

Spoiler-Free Re­views: Mon­ster Slay­ers, Dream Quest and Loop Hero

The Schel­ling Game (a.k.a. the Co­or­di­na­tion Game)

Ace At­tor­ney: pi­o­neer Ra­tion­al­ism-di­dac­tic game?

New Magic Post: The Pro Tour Was Magic

Fix­ing the ar­bi­trari­ness of game depth

Anal­y­sis of World Records in Speedrun­ning [LINKPOST]

This War of Mine

Is nuk­ing women and chil­dren cheaper than fire­bomb­ing them?

Spring 1912: A New Heaven And A New Earth

Poker with Lennier

Steam Greenlight

A Player of Games

Poker Playing

Aban­doned pro­to­type video game teach­ing el­e­men­tary cir­cuit theory

Work­ing Out in VR Really Works

Op­ti­miz­ing crop plant­ing with mixed in­te­ger lin­ear pro­gram­ming in Stardew Valley

Tar­nished Guy who Puts a Num on it

SBF x LoL

Marvel Snap: Phase 2

Notes on Meta’s Di­plo­macy-Play­ing AI

There are (prob­a­bly) no su­per­hu­man Go AIs: strong hu­man play­ers beat the strongest AIs

Hu­man beats SOTA Go AI by learn­ing an ad­ver­sar­ial policy

Wargam­ing AGI Development

Now Ac­cept­ing Player Ap­pli­ca­tions for Band of Blades

Nat­u­ral se­lec­tion for ingame char­ac­ter build optimisation

LessWrong Di­plo­macy Game 2015

[Question] What board games would you recom­mend?

We’re not as 3-Di­men­sional as We Think

En­tropic strat­egy in Two Truths and a Lie

AI Align­ment Prob­lem: Re­quire­ment not op­tional (A Crit­i­cal Anal­y­sis through Mass Effect Tril­ogy)

Wire­head­ing and mis­al­ign­ment by com­po­si­tion on NetHack

Atari early

Let’s Read: Su­per­hu­man AI for mul­ti­player poker

Free-to-Play Games: Three Key Trade-Offs

Cards Against Rationality

Align­ment Newslet­ter #13: 07/​02/​18

OpenAI re­leases func­tional Dota 5v5 bot, aims to beat world cham­pi­ons by August

Bi­ased Pandemic

Timer Toxicities

A Game­play Ex­plo­ra­tion of Yud­kowsky’s “Twelve Virtues”

If You Want to Win, Stop Conceding

Teach­ing Ladders

Spoiler-Free Re­view: Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (plus a Spoiler­ific sec­tion)

King Un­der The Moun­tain: Ad­ven­ture Log + Soundtrack

[1911.08265] Mas­ter­ing Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Plan­ning with a Learned Model | Arxiv

Eng­ineer­ing Ex­pe­rience Through Score

The Fun­da­men­tal Ques­tion—Ra­tion­al­ity com­puter game design

Bayes Academy: Devel­op­ment re­port 1

Ra­tion­al­ity Les­sons in the Game of Go

Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity MUD

[Link] Com­puter im­proves its Civ­i­liza­tion II game­play by read­ing the manual

Ad­e­quacy as Levels of Play

PlayS­ta­tion Odysseys

The Stan­ley Parable: Mak­ing philos­o­phy fun

Spoiler-Free Re­view: Mon­ster Train

[LINK] Speed su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

Disad­van­tages of Card Rebalancing

The Eter­nal Grind

Gary Gy­gax An­nihilated at 69

Magic play­ers: “How do I lose?”

NES-game play­ing AI [video link and AI-box­ing-re­lated com­ment]

Ver­ify­ing Ra­tion­al­ity via Ra­tion­alPoker.com

Chris Pikula Belongs in the Magic Hall of Fame

Eter­nal, and Hearth­stone Econ­omy ver­sus Magic Economy

“Play­ing to Win”

In the grim dark­ness of the far fu­ture there is only war con­tinued by other means

You Play to Win the Game

The Prob­lem of “Win-More”

Ra­tion­al­ity Games & Apps Brainstorming

In­tro­duc­ing The Long Game Pro­ject: Im­prov­ing De­ci­sion-Mak­ing Through Table­top Ex­er­cises and Si­mu­lated Experience

Dun­geons and Dis­course implementation

Raph Koster on Vir­tual Wor­lds vs Games (notes)

(Hu­mor) AI Align­ment Crit­i­cal Failure Table

Even Su­per­hu­man Go AIs Have Sur­pris­ing Failure Modes

Ra­tion­al­ist Clue

Let Your Work­ers Gather Food

Spoiler-Free Re­view: The Stan­ley Parable

[Draft] Poker With Lennier

Jus­tified Ex­pec­ta­tion of Pleas­ant Surprises

Spoiler-Free Re­view and then Semi-Walk­through: Star Traders: Frontiers

Cus­tom games that in­volve skills re­lated to rationality

Spoiler-Free Re­view: CrossCells

Two-player Catan

Magic Arena Bot Drafting

Au­to­mated Nomic Game 2

Card Col­lec­tion and Ownership

Re­view: Slay the Spire

Fif­teen Things I Learned From Watch­ing a Game of Se­cret Hitler

Linkpost: Arena’s New Open­ing Hand Rule Has Huge Im­pli­ca­tions For How We Play the Game