I like it as ambiguous. The master's policy works in either interpretation, which I suspect is what makes it a good policy.
Interesting! My interpretation was different- that the maps were the same, and both the master and novice used checking methods that falsely accepted a generally bad map, but the master became wrong about the map, while the novice became wrong about the map and also dead.
The jones act is definitely not helping, but shipping a 1 lb package 8 miles is currently $13.77 by UPS. Shipping from japan is $5.
Flagging this one as worth re-reading if you don't catch it. Took me three rounds (first was admittedly skimming)
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tux racer (penguin sledding) and supertux (platformer) are games with level editors, my three year old loves supertux and its level editor but it is a well-put together enough game to start to be addicting to him.
Whenever he sees me working, I'm on a terminal, and he wanted to learn how to use a terminal. I taught him how to type
```
sl
sl -a
sl; sl
sl | lolcat
cowsay hi
```
etc
and he found this very amusing. Often will demand to "make a train" if I get the laptop out where he can see me.
In a word, yes. Very unappealing.
Cart-pole balancing seems like a good toy case
Is it relevant whether you knew about the apples before the apple man told you about them? If you didn't know, then the least exploitable response to a message that looks adversarial is to pretend you didn't hear it, which would mean not eating the apples.
Also, pascal's mugging is worth coordinating against- if everyone gives the 5 dollars, the stranger rapidly accumulates wealth via dishonesty. If no one eats the apples, then the stranger has the same tree of apples get less and less eaten, which is less caustic.
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Deep in Berkeley, Bayesian reasoning is used to carefully map out the odds of a plandemic. Probabilities stay safely in the range of 1 and 99, everyone is calibrated, no one is overconfident. Hang on what's this -- Rachel has just claimed to be 99.994% sure that Anthony Fauci didn't skip through the Wuhan wet market scattering used pipettes like an apocalyptic flower girl. Eyebrows are raised. Is she a bad rationalist?
Miles away, but not many...
Before seeing it you assigned this 800 word blog post about sonichu a probability of 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003 %. This is good work. Do more like this.