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## [D] Monday General Rationality Thread
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* Author: u/AutoModerator *
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* URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/9cm6xq/d_monday_general_rationality_thread/
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* Score: 14
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* Created: 2018-09-03T15:07:04
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### Post:
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Welcome to the Monday thread on general rationality topics! Do you really want to talk about something non-fictional, related to the real world? Have you:
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* Seen something interesting on /r/science?
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* Found a new way to get your shit even-more together?
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* Figured out how to become immortal?
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* Constructed artificial general intelligence?
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* Read a neat nonfiction book?
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* Munchkined your way into total control of your D&D campaign?
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### Comments:
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> **u/Veedrac** [+6] (an hour later)
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> What do people think of MIRI as a charity?
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>> **u/callmesalticidae** [+13] *writes worldbuilding books* (2 hours later)
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>> I’m skeptical of its effectiveness, mainly because I’ve encountered more than a few people who believe that AI is what we should all be focusing on, and who still doubt that MIRI in particular is the optimal AI risk nonprofit. I haven’t seen anyone write up something on what we’d expect from the ideal AI risk nonprofit, either, so as a layperson in a complicated field, I don’t think I’m well equipped to judge MIRI’s effectiveness myself.
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>>> **u/crivtox** [+2] *Closed Time Loop Enthusiast* (9 hours later)
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>>>
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>>> Yeah , though there are not much more ai safety nonprofits either .
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>>> And all of them are doing different parts of basic research so Its difficult to tell at this point which ones will end up being relevant .
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>>>
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>>> How much competent researchers consider the problem important enough to work on it will probably be more important that money , unless you had the enormous amounts of money necessary to change that .
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>>>
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>>> Miri has had some impact on the field , independently on how useful their research ends up being .
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>>> But its not very clear if them having more money would change anything significant .
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>> **u/GaBeRockKing** [+3] *Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857* (9 hours later)
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>> I have my amazon smile donation set to give money to MIRI, but that's mostly just because I think it's funny. My total donation has ended up being $3.62 so far, which I guess is enough for EY to buy most of a cup of coffee.
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> **u/xamueljones** [+5] *My arch-enemy is entropy* (an hour later)
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> So I'm planning to start my first ever quest. TL;DR the quest is about having strange dreams where you explore a world of horror in a bombed city.
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> Type - Exploration/Mystery/Experimentation
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> Genre - Horror/Mystery/Journey
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> Here's my current [draft](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JHLywZ8JPwUhB5CrGHwBW2dZEzShti6KAYdWhOsDLCI/edit) of the first chapter for anyone interested.
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>
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> But I have questions about running a quest that I hope people here can provide advice on:
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>
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> * I want to do an exploration/mystery style quest. This means that I don't want offer any choices and every post will be write-ins only. Should I expect issues with this?
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> * I have no idea what would be better to post this quest to. SpaceBattles or SufficientVelocity (or some third option I haven't considered). Or should I go with both and combine votes from both sites?
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> * I dislike quests where the character does things out-of-character depending on the vote. So I want to do a trait system where the character will have bonuses or maluses depending in how in-line the vote is with their (determined) personality. The trait system is inspired by [Dragon Ball: After the End](https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dragon-ball-after-the-end.30940/). Since it sounds like it might conflict with my desire to only allow write-ins, will this be a problem?
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> * What style of voting would work best? I know of [NetTally](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/nettally-vote-tally-program.508853/) and am tentatively deciding on approval voting.
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> * A lot of quests have game mechanics, but I want the quest to be character-driven and to focus on the actions taken rather than stats. Will I run into issues without having stats?
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> * Anything else I should be aware of?
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>> **u/best_cat** [+3] (5 hours later)
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>> I've seen some threads where the Quest Master ends update posts with a note like, "voting opens 12 hours after this post" to give people a chance to discuss write in plans.
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>> In your case, I might insert an extra step.
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>> You make an update. Voters have 24 hours to suggest plans. You make a post that summarizes the top plans and opens things for voting.
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>> You can even add a multiplier for plans that are especially in character
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>>> **u/xamueljones** [+3] *My arch-enemy is entropy* (8 hours later)
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>>>
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>>> >You make an update. Voters have 24 hours to suggest plans. You make a post that summarizes the top plans and opens things for voting.
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>>> Yeah a moratorium would work well for that, and when I lift the moratorium in 24 hours, I can then post the plans made. Thanks!
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>>>> **u/None** [+1] (21 hours later)
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>>>>
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>>>> I would suggest keeping the moratorium shorter than 24 hours; maybe two or three. Vary it depending on how much discussion you think there will be.
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>> **u/callmesalticidae** [+2] *writes worldbuilding books* (2 hours later)
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>> I’ll think about the rest and post when I’m no longer on mobile, but SV is the generally seen as the forum to go to for Quests.
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> **u/None** [+5] (2 hours later)
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> [deleted]
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>> **u/callmesalticidae** [+2] *writes worldbuilding books* (2 hours later)
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>> I’m doing something like that with [Salticidae Philosophiae](https://saltphil.wordpress.com)
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>> EDIT: got the link to work, finally
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>> **u/None** [-3] (2 hours later)
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>> [removed]
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>>> **u/sicutumbo** [+5] (2 hours later)
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>>>
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>>> So this bot seems to work by finding comments with the string "Sarah", "John" or "terminated" in them and making the relevant reply to that comment.
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>>>
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>>> Honestly, I don't think it adds much to any given conversation, was probably made just to get experience making a Reddit bot, and should be banned.
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>>>> **u/alexanderwales** [+4] *Time flies like an arrow* (12 hours later)
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>>>>
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>>>> Just gave it a ban.
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>>>>> **u/sicutumbo** [+1] (12 hours later)
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>>>>>
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>>>>> Thank you.
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>>> **u/callmesalticidae** [+2] *writes worldbuilding books* (2 hours later)
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>>>
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>>> No no, John FOWLER.
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>>> **u/Killako1** [+1] (9 hours later)
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>>>
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>>> Bad bot
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> **u/EmmaJuicyClementine** [+2] (3 hours later)
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>
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> If anyone else here is poly like me, I found a great little poly discord server here: [https://discord.gg/AamDEGC](https://discord.gg/AamDEGC)
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> It's an awesome community, and I definitely recommend checking it out
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>> **u/EPPiano** [+1] (13 hours later)
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>>
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>> Poly?
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>>> **u/causalchain** [+1] (16 hours later)
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>>>
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>>> Polyamorous
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>> **u/DaystarEld** [+1] *Pokémon Professor* (a day later)
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>> Neat, I'll check it out, thanks for posting it!
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> **u/None** [+1] (9 hours later)
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> Anyone know a good intro to Bayesian extreme-value modeling?
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