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I am the worst (maybe best) person to play board games with because 5 minutes after learning the rules I loudly proclaim what I perceive the meta to be, and una

I am the worst (maybe best) person to play board games with because 5 minutes after learning the rules I loudly proclaim what I perceive the meta to be, and unashamedly telegraph my moves in regards to it. I lose almost all of the time, but it makes the night much more memorable and I enjoy the mental exercise of trying to quickly grok a meta. Sometimes for fun I loudly proclaim "I'm going to Moneyball this!", and then often we end up discussing baseball or movies for a fair bit too. Here are a few games and what their meta is not: The Climbers - Don't try and get as high as quickly as possible. Munchkin - Don't try and become a mercenary for hire defending anyone who needs it.

roel_v 7y ago
In law school, I had a 'how to negotiate' workshop once. We were given a fictitious deal to negotiate (with some external circumstances hidden from us), were paired up with a random person and then had 15 minutes to execute in the hallway. The second I got my numbers, I started building some sort of game theory model around the circumstances in my head, filling in some numbers and scenarios, all while stalling the girl opposite to me so that I had more time to work on my 'optimal strategy'. So then in the last 3 minutes or so, I 'executed' on my theory and we both got our negotiated numbers. The girl looked rather bored and played a bit dumb, giving out the feeling of 'I'll let you have this one, what do I care.' Well the result is easy to predict - after the hidden circumstances and our respective numbers were revealed, it turned out she had basically steamrolled me and any smugness I might have had about my rational approach and winning strategy was crushed. I stopped doing any formal analysis of real world decision making after that.
gowld 7y ago
Is intentionally using meta when you are bad at it a good meta?

roel_v 7y ago

In law school, I had a 'how to negotiate' workshop once. We were given a fictitious deal to negotiate (with some external circumstances hidden from us), were paired up with a random person and then had 15 minutes to execute in the hallway. The second I got my numbers, I started building some sort of game theory model around the circumstances in my head, filling in some numbers and scenarios, all while stalling the girl opposite to me so that I had more time to work on my 'optimal strategy'. So then in the last 3 minutes or so, I 'executed' on my theory and we both got our negotiated numbers. The girl looked rather bored and played a bit dumb, giving out the feeling of 'I'll let you have this one, what do I care.' Well the result is easy to predict - after the hidden circumstances and our respective numbers were revealed, it turned out she had basically steamrolled me and any smugness I might have had about my rational approach and winning strategy was crushed. I stopped doing any formal analysis of real world decision making after that.

gowld 7y ago

Is intentionally using meta when you are bad at it a good meta?