flitter
3mo ago
Would open up opportunity for players to collude: we'll tank our chances to win this game so you guys bet big, if you do the same for us.
Which might not matter much. But it's still the league's best interest to offer a full clear barrier between players and gambling. At least while the public still cares more about this than a gambling partnership can buy.
flitter
3mo ago
Necro posting that i finally read this paper, neat. Found out my copy of Pale Fire corrected the italics for "Hiding place".
flitter
5mo ago
Is comment ironic? I have a poor sarcasm tell and would like you to speak more plainly here if so. I am uninformed on the object level here I apologize.
You said "It might be another matter if [..] the Secretary of State, CIA director, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs all told him the Israelis were full of shit"
Skimming parent posts you are replying to right here it seems like other people think that is exactly the case. Do these comments meet your bar for manpliation then? Or do you think they are misrepresenting this information?
(Chairman Join Chief) General Caine replied: “Sir, this is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell, and their plans are not always well-developed. They know they need us, and that’s why they’re hard-selling.”
The C.I.A. director used one word to describe the Israeli prime minister’s regime change scenarios: “farcical.”
Everyone seems to be against this war now, or is leaking that they were against it. Vance was against it. General Caine was against it. The CIA was against it. The blame is getting shoved off onto Trump and Netanyahu
flitter
10mo ago
Coolness is associated with freedom and relaxation and confidence yes. So caring less about what others think is usually cool, but the neurotic person dutifully buckling seatbelts for a 5 minute pickup jaunt is not cool. (not to say they aren't cool in general, just in this specific moment. they could very well be cool to give a moving eulogy when a drunk driver ends the merry ride early for anyone not wearing a seatbelt)
I've used some adjectives to stack the deck unfairly here of course, because this pup would be cooler than a try-hard wannabe that would like to buckle seatbelt but avoids doing so because they care so much about what other people think.
There's something about the fact that the doing (seatbelt) is uncool and the actively-non-doing (unbuckling to fit in) is double-uncool and the passive-non-doing (jaunt) is the cool thing.
Additionally: consider proportionality of safety-ism. Teen wearing a helmet for a razor scooter is uncool. Neil Armstrong triple-checking industrial buckles is very cool. (source: my opinion). Whether wearing a seatbelt is cool or not depends on which reference class a car-ride feels like.
flitter
10mo ago
I think it's another "every generation feels the next is dumbner for not knowing things" paired with the fact that it's always true and we are probably consistently getting dumber year to year.
Old people made fun of me for knowing nothing about cars or the civil war generals, and now we get to make fun of them for computers.
Even our "dumb college students" stereotypes are getting dumbner. Compare this freshman of philosophy: https://youtube.com/watch?v=57vCBMqnC1Y
flitter
11mo ago
How does restricting people from using your ideas end up enabled idea sharing?
The theory is that patents protect the people that figured out the ideas to share them and get compensation if people license them, which protects inventors from copycats and allows publishing patented ideas
In a world without patents: if i come up with a brilliant steam engine design, and go to a factory and ask them to make it for me, they could simply steal the design and claim they came up with it. And then the factory would have to carefully guard the secret techniques for making this new engine from rival factories that would steal the design.
flitter
11mo ago
Reminiscent of this discussion on whether to list Lance Armstrong's objective achievements on wikipedia; https://www.themotte.org/post/3311/friday-fun-thread-for-october-10/375101
Although this thread is more about ethics outside the game (steroids are in the game) and chess. So maybe Bobby Fischer is a better comparison? His achievements aren't hidden but there's often an asterisk
A stopped clock sometimes tells the truth because it is so broken it can't tell the difference.
A working yet biased clock is never right. It will always tell you a turned story, always deceive you in direction of it's aim.
For any particular reason? or is that coming in part 2. I may have missed your point here
More options
Context Copy link