Your comment is enlightening, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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The video appears to be private, which is unfortunat since I was interested in watching how the event progressed.
I’ve said the same myself...
And yet I have not found this post until this very day, how unfortunate...
I answered every question except the last one (I don’t have a scanner set up).
Indeed I consider that the winning move would be to blackmail the person starting the auction for a small percentage of his winnings, (else you expain to everyone present why he’ll get those winnings).
I am still interested in some good examples of Yvain’s posts which invoked this reaction from you, I have been reading somewhat more of his writing recently and though I often agree with his points, I don’t recall feeling such explicit urges.
I just came to note that I’m reading through my relatively few posts here, and the above is still true.
I don’t want to mention it directly here, out of embarrassment, if nothing else, but it was a long piece, the ending of which features the immortal An-/Pro-tagonist giving up on the universe, and committing suicide.
Two can keep a secret… if one is dead.
I’m sure a lot of people will feel that way if free will is determined to be an illusion, and enhanced humans or nonapocalyptic but still vaguely (apparently) unfriendly AI are loose on the world, manipulating people.
I myself held this position until I, quite recently as a matter of fact, read some fiction which tipped off an existential crisis, putting me on the verge of a panic attack. Since then, I am more wary of dangerous ideas.
Ignorance might be bliss, but wisdom is gathered by those who survive their youth.
So, do you maintain your decision, or was it just a spur of the moment lapse of judgement?
I agree that it’s depressing, I disagree that we should give up now. No vote either way.
I wouldn’t reccommend duplicating my filesystem (it’s most likely less useful than most filing systems which aren’t “throw everything in one folder/on desktop and forget about it”) but I’ll note some key features:
Files reside inside folder trees of which the folders are either named clearly as what they are, or in obsuficating special words or made up phrases (even acronyms) which have only special meaning to me in the context of that paticular position in the file tree.
Different types of files have seperate folders in places
Folder trees are arranged in sets of categories, sub categories and filetypes (the order of sorting is very ad-hoc and arbitrary) you could have for example: Media > Type of media > genre of media > Creator > Work but it could just as easily have Creator at the root of the tree.
I really suggest you just make your own system or copy someone else’s; it will more likely than not provide more utility.
Edit: just to be clear I don’t have any sort of automated software which organizes my files for me, I am merely saying that my mind organizes the files semiconciously so I’m not directly “driving” when the act of organizing occurs
My first reflex is to exclaim that I don’t organize my files in any way, but that is incorrect: I merely lack comphrehension of how my filing system works, it’s inconsistent, patchy and arbitrary, but I do have some sort of automatic filing system which feels “right” and when my files are not in this system my computer feels “wrong”.
This is mine which I recieved at around age six. I don’t recall how many tens of times I read and reread those pages.
Age, and economic status, at least in my case, and I am one of the survey takers.
That method of attack would only work for a tiny fraction of possible gatekeepers. The question, of replicating the feats of Elezier and Tuxedage, can only be answered by a multitude of such fractionally effective methods of attack, or a much smaller number, broader methods. My suspicions are that Tuxedage’s attacks in particular involve leveraging psychological control mechanisms into forcing the gate keeper to be irrational, and then leverage that.
Otherwise, I claim that your proposition is entirely too incomplete without further dimensions of attack methods to cover some of the other probabilty space of gatekeeper minds.