I Helped Design the ‘Machine Learning President’ Game • Hacker News Board

Re: I Helped Design the ‘Machine Learning President’ Game

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Post by Intermernet » Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 7:52 AM UTC

starpilot wrote: post #10

mattnewport wrote: post #3

I'm reminded once more of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, although it's interesting to think about how this plays out when viral social media gets involved. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge... "Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article…

The Gell-Mann Dunning Kruger Betteridge Godwin Effect. Did I miss any?

Headline: "Did The Nazis Cause Hitler?"

Re: I Helped Design the ‘Machine Learning President’ Game

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Post by Y_Y » Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 11:50 AM UTC

randylubin wrote: post #7

tysonzni wrote: post #2

Is the game for members only?

We haven't published the rules so it's currently only available to be run by us...

That makes this almost completely uninteresting then.

Re: I Helped Design the ‘Machine Learning President’ Game

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Post by michaelt » Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 12:09 PM UTC

nulagrithom wrote: post #9

randylubin wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We haven't published the rules so it's currently only available to be run by us...

Why not publish?

I've seen videos of large-scale games where - for example - you simulate WW1 with each major power represented by a team of 5 adults in separate rooms, with the game organisers running the underlying simulation, limiting each team's visibility of other teams and the simulation.

Perhaps this is such a game, where you can't play without 40 people for 2 days - and hence the rules aren't in enough demand to make publication practical?