The manga/anime series “Death Note”
It’s a long mental battle between two clever people, not much for rationality techniques, but characters think rationally, and the magical parts have well defined rules, similar to Lawrence Watt-Evans’ fiction.
I would be terribly thankful to anybody who could reccomend me some more stories involving these sorts of fights. Trickery and betrayal is common enough, but a prolonged fued of this nature is rare.
If you want to stop someone from reading a book, there’s generally better ways than telling them not to do it.
That aside, kids can be surprisingly dumb, I wouldn’t rely on them reaching the right conclusions even with assistance.
It’s beside the point, but your idea of torture might be a bit light if you would undergo five minutes out of curiosity.
I think he is implying that we think we agree when we dont really, in that case he would expect us to vote in agreement with you.
When the site crashes it says things like “looks like today isn’t your day” or “it’s okay to cry”.
One of these phrases links you to the reddit blog, another links to the reddit store, leftovers I guess.
Useful ego booster too.
Curious, are you proud of how difficult you find lying?
I dont know much about charity, but I dont contest that this was made up in a day.
“Never fix the worst problem first, because thats the way skin heals”
Even better to address as many as possible, making them all feel like they are being specifically targeted
“Hey you with the dark hair”
Congratulations, you’ve written the most horrifying sentence I’ve read all day.
Tricking the other player is never justified? Did I miss something?
Teach everyone else to cooperate then defect
Do you mean you would rather commit one stranger to poverty than kill ten people, or that you being in poverty is worse than ten strangers dying, but a stranger in poverty is not?
I don’t go around telling people, and if I was in the audience I would raise my hand with everybody else.
Why cant linked articles be promoted? Do they have to be original content written specifically for LessWrong? Can they be cross posted elsewhere?
If you could gave me a magic button to kill 10 people and make me rich, without any tricky business (like risk of being punished) then I would push it.
I should also hope that nobody else would, and by the sound of things many wouldn’t.
That makes a lot of sense. Anyone object to that?
If they are useful, shouldn’t you be glad to hear objections?
I don’t think that the idea was that the higher your score the more rational you are, but I do agree that the “Top Contributors” thing seems to be more trouble than it’s worth.
4 digit karma total should be common soon enough, several users are past 100 after mere days.
Minor problem, but at this rate the green circles are in trouble.
There’s a bug that shows users as having millions of karma, the excess numbers just spill over the side.
Eliezer and Robin decide what gets promoted, if the site gets a lot of junk on it, then thats presumably going to be a pretty important role.
I’ve heard that complaint a lot, and I agree in the case of Sherlock Holmes, but death note seemed somehow plausible.
If you can remember it at all, do you think you could tell me specifically which parts you thought were “lucky guesses”? I like to keep those sorts of things in mind when re-reading.