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I am Andrew Hyer, currently living in New Jersey and working in New York (in the finance industry).

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Your Clone Wants to Kill You Because You Assumed Too Much
aphyer2d40

Doris wasn’t self-sacrificing. Amaryllis, now there was a woman who would be able to make a suicide bomber clone. If Doris Finch tried it, her clone would, at best, start up an argument about which of them should be the one to do it, or try to spawn another clone to do the work for her.

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Do not hand off what you cannot pick up
aphyer5d42

This does not sound to me like good advice in general?  It could work with a small, driven team on a single focused project who wants to be sure everyone has hands on everything.  But in general, specialization is an extremely powerful tool that we use to accomplish things we cannot accomplish alone.  I would not benefit from insisting on understanding the whole fertilizer production supply chain before I could eat breakfast.

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CoafOS's Shortform
aphyer6d20

You seem to be conflating 'amount of money paid to the worker as salary' with 'amount of capital used to equip the worker'.

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AI Timelines and Points of no return
aphyer24d100

...I would say that the Soft PNR has clearly already occurred?

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AI #136: A Song and Dance
aphyer2mo80

They will show you the money if you use the new app Neon Mobile to show the AI companies your phone calls, which shot up to the No. 2 app in Apple’s app store. Only your side is recorded unless both of you are users, and they pay 30 cents per minute, which is $18 per hour. The terms let them sell or use the data for essentially anything.

 

I feel like this paragraph should at least mention the whole 'they have already accidentally leaked all your data' thing.

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Always Discard Fascist Policies
aphyer2mo22

I have not played Secret Hitler specifically, but in similar games (Mafia and Resistance) it is not in fact the case that members of the majority team should immediately share all information, and some of the best plays I've seen have involved members of the majority bluffing the minority.

 

(With that said, everyone following both of the first two bullets on your list above seems like clearly not a Nash equilibrium).

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D&D.Sci: Serial Healers [Evaluation & Ruleset]
aphyer2mo20

...but now the winner is a four-and-a-half-way tie.  Just take the credit, it'll be neater.  :P

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D&D.Sci: Serial Healers
aphyer2mo40

 

My current accusations of which wizards have been causing[1] disease.

VERY SIMPLE LINKAGES:

  • Babblepox and Chucklepox are both caused by Danny Nova.
  • Scraped Knee and Scraped Elbow are both caused by Zancro.
  • Smokesickness is caused by Nettie Silver.

INTERMEDIATE LINKAGES:

  • Disease Syndrome is caused by Moon Finder.  However, the power of the Moon allows him to strike people with this from a distance: he affects people in sector X+1 or X-1 while he is in sector X.[2]
  • Parachondria and Problems Disorder are caused by Bartholopew, who says 'Pew' while casting spells to strike people with this from a distance: he affects people in sector X+1 or X-1 while he is in sector X.[2]
  • Scramblepox and Bumblepox are caused by both Azeru (at range up to 1) and Danny Nova (just in his own sector).
  • Mildly But Persistently Itchy Throat is caused by Dankon Ground.  It's not occuring in his sector, but it only occurs when he is present in the city, never otherwise.

COMPLEX LINKAGES:

  • Rumblepox is mostly caused by Averill (who leaves behind delayed-action magic that goes off up to 4 days later to spread it), plus a little bit by Danny Nova (just spreading it directly).
  • Gurglepox is caused by Azeru and Cayn: I believe they may be deceiving the monitoring (since both of them claim to always be in Zone [Day+9 mod 12]) every day they are in the city, even if this means skipping zones).  However, it only appears on days when one or the other is in the city.  Perhaps they are hiding behind invisibility or illusions while spreading it?  EDIT: I am withdrawing this accusation, since it turns out that Azeru and Cayn always have at least one of them in the city.  (Also, we already have Azeru nicked on other charges).
  • Disquietingly Serene Bowel Syndrome was caused by a ritual of some kind cast around Day 390 - it did not appear before then, and since then it has appeared regularly (ha) across all Calderia.  I have no proof of who conducted the ritual - I suspect the wizard Gouberi (who formally showed up in the university for the first time the next week), but don't have enough proof to make that a formal accusation.
  • I have no idea where The Shivers come from.
  1. ^

    Obviously, no-one would be this offended by people curing disease for free!  Rather, it seems clear that the Calderians have some customary circumlocutions around speaking of spreading plague, in order to not bring down the attention of the Pallid Princess, She Who Arises In Filth.  We should interpret this whole dataset as about problems caused rather than problems healed, but we shouldn't say that directly to the Calderians.

  2. ^

    There seems to be some pattern in when these mages affect the clockwise sector and when the counter-clockwise, but I don't know what it is.  It might match e.g. phase of moon, but not neatly enough that I can easily work it out.

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The Problem with Defining an "AGI Ban" by Outcome (a lawyer's take).
aphyer2mo20

Fusion is also a thing.  A glass of tap water contains (admittedly a very small amount) of deuterium.

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The Problem with Defining an "AGI Ban" by Outcome (a lawyer's take).
aphyer2mo43

Would you define 'nuclear weapon' as 'anything not produced in a way that verifiably could not contain any nuclear material'?

(Keep in mind that this would categorize e.g. a glass of tap water as a nuclear weapon.)

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42D&D.Sci Alchemy: Archmage Anachronos and the Supply Chain Issues
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