Heh @SamoBurja has struck memetic gold with live player/dead player. You can tell because you can already spot several instances of people accusing each other of being dead players in the wild
. I predict this one has decade-long legs.
Congrats sir
https://medium.com/@samo.burja/live-versus-dead-players-2b24f6e9eae2 …
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Ha! Thank you. I always wanted to launch a new weapon in the meme war I guess?
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It's interesting that
@slatestarcodex chose this moment to start writing a series about the virtues of following opaque traditions and the dangers of trying to reason for yourself. Don't kill the players, Scott!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
I'm not following. What do you mean?
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https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret-of-our-success/ …: "Henrich [debunks] a view where humans [...] are smart enough to invent neat tools that help us adapt to unfamiliar environments. Against such theories: we cannot actually do this." A player who doesn't think they're smart enough to invent is a dead one.
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Speaking of people who feel dead... this paper I was tweeting about yesterday might be of interest to all 3 of you.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166378/ …
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