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I Helped Design the ‘Machine Learning President’ Game
- tysonzni 8y agoIs the game for members only?
- dav 8y agoFrom the article, it seems the game is an in-house product that the Scout team must conduct with trained facilitators and some special software. It doesn't sound like something you can download or sign in to play.
- randylubin 8y agoWe haven't published the rules so it's currently only available to be run by us...
- nulagrithom 8y agoWhy not publish?
- michaelt 8y agoI'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?
- Y_Y 8y agoThat makes this almost completely uninteresting then.
- mattnewport 8y agoI'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-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you 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 and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."
- lainga 8y agoOne wonders what sources Mayer (author of the New Yorker article) had, or thought she had.
- losteric 8y agoDon't forget the Dunning-Kruger effect - sometimes the reader scoffs because they reversed cause and effect, or saw a correlation that doesn't exist ("vaccines cause autism!") Additionally, quality on one subject by one author says little about overall quality. Maybe the author was forced to fill in for a sick subject matter expert, or rush re-writing the article after a hard drive failure, or just don't care because layoffs are coming... maybe the paper poorly interviewed their sports writer because sports is a filler for that paper. Maybe lots of things. If you're trying to avoid Gell-Mann Amnesia, you need to trends of quality not single data-points.
- starpilot 8y agoThe Gell-Mann Dunning Kruger Betteridge Godwin Effect. Did I miss any?
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- drngdds 8y agoThat actually sounds like a really interesting game.