Even knowing how utterly shitty the Middle Ages were, a part of me longs to own a castle with a huge moat and to ride into battle against those who threaten my fields.
Bro the point of the castle/moat thing is you don't have to ride forth into battle.... you let the enemies who are prone to confirmation bias & over-optimism come to you, and your archers recalibrate their priors....
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>thinking you'd own the castle, instead of being a peasant supplying the food to its occupantspic.twitter.com/gLNCTl9a67
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I'd pretty obviously have been a siege engineer.
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Maybe I'm being a bit thick right now, but I'm a decision-making making & stats geek and I don't get the joke. The best I'm able to come up is something about the archers defending their bayes?
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Oh it's not a pun (you fell in the pun-moat): he means that would-be castle-takers only look for evidence that they could successfully take your castle, and your archers will be adjusting the castle-takers' priors—possibly permanently.
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Deer Sir, I got mighty trebuchet, I shall drop burning barrel of oil on top of Your granary.
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I wonder where you would get oil that is 1) cheap 2) "light" (high vapor pressure) enough for your idea.
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Solid objection.
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