“Miscellaneous § D&D Game #2 Log”, 2009-08-05 (; similar):
Misc thoughts, memories, proto-essays, musings, etc.
Account of the second D&D game I’ve ever played, with my relatives, in which a party of adventurers seeks to return the renowned dancing bear Bufo stolen from a circus, only to discover a maze of lies in which they have lost their bearings, with perhaps an unbearable truth, but it all ends fur the beast. Also, remember, kids—winners don’t do drugs!
- Quickies
- Non-Existence Is Bad
- Celebrity Masquerade Game
- Pemmican
- Rock Paper Scissors
- Backfire Effects in Operant Conditioning
- On Being Sick As A Kid
- On First Looking Into Tolkien’s Tower
- Hash Functions
- Icepires
- Cleanup: Before Or After?
- Peak Human Speed
- Oldest Food
- Zuckerberg Futures
- Russia
- Conscientiousness And Online Education
- Fiction
- American Light Novels’ Absence
- Cultural Growth through Diversity
- TV & the Matrix
- Cherchez Le Chien: Dogs As Class Markers in Anime
- Tradeoffs and Costly Signaling in Appearances: the Case of Long Hair
- The Tragedy of Grand Admiral Thrawn
- On Dropping Family Guy
- Pom Poko’s Glorification of Group Suicide
- Full Metal Alchemist: Pride and Knowledge
- A Secular Humanist Reads The Tale of Genji
- Economics
- Long Term Investment
- Measuring Social Trust by Offering Free Lunches
- Lip Reading Website
- Good Governance & Girl Scouts
- Chinese Kremlinology
- Domain-Squatting Externalities
- Ordinary Life Improvements
- A Market For Fat: The Transfer Machine
- Urban Area Cost-Of-Living As Big Tech Moats & Employee Golden Handcuffs
- Psychology
- Technology
- Somatic Genetic Engineering
- The Advantage of an Uncommon Name
- Backups: Life and Death
- Measuring Multiple times in a Sandglass
- Powerful Natural Languages
- A Bitcoin+BitTorrent-Driven Economy for Creators (Artcoin)
- William Carlos Williams
- Simplicity Is the Price of Reliability
- November 2016 Data Loss Postmortem
- Cats and Computer Keyboards
- How Would You Prove You Are a Time-Traveler From the Past?
- ARPA and SCI: Surfing AI (Review of Roland & Shiman 200222ya)
- Open Questions
- The Reverse Amara’s Law
- Worldbuilding: The Lights in the Sky Are Sacs
- Remote Monitoring
- Surprising Turing-Complete Languages
- North Paw
- Leaf Burgers
- Night Watch
- Two Cows: Philosophy
- Venusian Revolution
- Hard Problems in Utilitarianism
- Who Lives Longer, Men or Women?
- Politicians Are Not Unethical
- Defining ‘But’
- On Meta-Ethical Optimization
- Alternate Futures: The Second English Restoration
- Cicadas
- No-Poo Self-Experiment
- Newton’s System of the World and Comets
- Rationality Heuristic for Bias Detection: Updating Towards the Net Weight of Evidence
- Littlewood’s Law and the Global Media
- D&D Game #2 Log
- Highly Potent Drugs As Psychological Warfare Weapons
- Who Buys Fonts?
- Twitter Follow-Request UX Problems
- The Diamond Earrings
- Advanced Chess Obituary