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Comment on Steve Jobs' secret for eliciting questions, overheard at a San Francisco cafe in ~tech
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Comment on A game of trust. This particular link came up a lot when talking about how to build tildes. I'd encourage everyone to play it. in ~games
empath LinkI think the rewards don’t match the actual rewards for a trench warfare situation. In most cases you were punished for cooperating and rewarded for cheating, at least to a mild degree and the...I think the rewards don’t match the actual rewards for a trench warfare situation. In most cases you were punished for cooperating and rewarded for cheating, at least to a mild degree and the punishment for cooperating while the other cheated was severe (death). Every setup I made that matched what I felt a realistic reward setup ended up with all cheaters, which makes sense since millions of people died in no mans land and we only had the one short-lived truce.
And this is how fake quotes get started. Someone takes some fairly innocuous advice, claims that some famous person said it and now everyone thinks it’s wisdom from the ancients.
I suspect this has been going on from the days of Buddha and Plato and that half the stuff we think various prophets said was only attributed to them by some ancient thought leader looking for the imprimatur of authority.