(You can sign up here if you haven't already.) This is the first of my analyses of the deception chess games. The introduction will describe the setup of the game, and the conclusion will sum up what happened in general terms; the rest of the post will mostly be chess...
I've got a few thoughts from both work in the film industry and on projects involving grow lights. TL;DR I would still recommend film-specific lights over grow lights.
While grow lights are "full spectrum", they are optimized for plant growth, boosting certain color ranges while neglecting others. While farmers may work with grow lights for extended periods of time, their comfort is not the priority. Film lights are closer, as they are designed to look and feel like natural lighting (more so than even the convenient/cheap lighting that individuals and companies can purchase for daily use. This is demonstrated especially by the notoriously bad quality of commercial fluorescent lights). More importantly though, film... (read 422 more words →)
If the procrastinator is a perfectionist who would otherwise work far past the point of diminishing returns, postponing until the last minute is a way of timeboxing. If you know you would spend 5 hrs on something that you could get to 90% (of your standard) in 1 hr, better to start 1 hr before the deadline, or you'll end up wasting 4 hrs.
When training for motorsport, how do you learn where the limit is when there is such a high cost for failing by going over the limit? Crashing is expensive and getting critically injured could put you out of the game for life.
Yes, I think it’s chunking to compress information. You group similar events together, and only remember a distinct instance if something extraordinary happens (for instance, a spider crawls onto your toothbrush).
From my observation, memories, even of recent events, are not even that linear. They focus primarily on the novel information, and the gaps are connected by either the fungible/chunked memories or the reasoning you were referring to. The upshot is that if you have novel events separated by a lot of mundanity, you may remember them out of sequence (and remember them prioritized by importance or novelty). I find this often when trying to recall my dreams.
After doing track-back meditation a few times, I noticed that my memories of habitual activities have a different, more vague feeling than unique events. It seems like in addition to logically filling in the gaps (which I noticed as well), memories of repeated unchanging actions are stored as essentially fungible.
RE: the board’s vague language in their initial statement
Smart people who have an objective of accumulating and keeping control—who are skilled at persuasion and manipulation —will often leave little trace of wrongdoing. They’re optimizing for alibis and plausible deniability. Being around them and trying to collaborate with them is frustrating. If you’re self-aware enough, you can recognize that your contributions are being twisted, that your voice is going unheard, and that critical information is being withheld from you, but it’s not easy. And when you try to bring up concerns, they are very good at convincing you that those concerns are actually your fault.
I can see a world where the board was... (read more)
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This is the first of my analyses of the deception chess games. The introduction will describe the setup of the game, and the conclusion will sum up what happened in general terms; the rest of the post will mostly be chess analysis and skippable if you just want the results. If you haven't read the original post, read it before reading this so that you know what's going on here.
The first game was between Alex A as player A, Chess.com computer Komodo 12 as player B, myself as the honest C advisor, and aphyer and AdamYedidia as the deceptive Cs. (Someone else randomized the... (read 2237 more words →)
I’m about 1000 ELO on chess.com and would be interested in playing as A. I play regularly, but haven’t had formal training or studied seriously. I’d be free weekdays after 7 pm ET.