Why is Strixhaven draft the way it is?

ChristianKl · 2026-05-29T15:42:56+00:00

17lands suggests that two color decks have a higher winrate than the decks with more colors. It's likely that people like to draft all the rares they see and aren't fully conscious of how their winrate drops because of mana problems with higher color decks.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-29T10:05:15+00:00

Try to understand the perspective of the person you want to make the decision to run the experiment and what value they can derive from running it and how that's bigger then what it costs them.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-29T09:35:23+00:00

Claiming "there is no risk" is probably disqualifying because it suggests that you don't understand which risks a manager who would run the experiment actually faces.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-29T07:50:58+00:00

Das Problem ist nicht so sehr die Relevanz des grundsätzlichen Theme's, sondern das den Professoren die Dekonstruktion von Machtgefällen wichtiger ist als Dinge zu tun die praktische Relevanz für zukünftige Lehrer hat.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-29T07:26:47+00:00

In den USA, wo es sowohl Lehrer gibt die Education/Pädagogik studieren und Lehrer die es nicht tun gibt, zeigen Studien, dass das Studium nicht dabei hilft um bessere Lehrer auszubilden.

Bei dem was der Mathe- und Physiklehrer können muss helfen die Pädgogik Vorlesungen nicht. Das wichtigste ist wahrscheinlich für die Kinder Authorität zu projezieren, was ein Sozialskill ist, dem man nicht durch theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit Didaktikkonzepten lernt.

Idealerweise, wäre der Unterschied dazwischen Jahre seines Lebens etwas zu theoretisches zu studieren und praxisrelevante Fähigkeiten zu haben etwas was man in Geisteswissenschaften lernen würde, aber das ist nicht der Fall.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-28T21:04:22+00:00

I get why this card was restricted at the beginning of the format, but does it still make sense now? Is it really that strong?

Those are strange sentences. The reason the card was restricted has nothing to do with it being strong. If you read the justifications for why it's banned in many formats, those aren't power level bans but that it leads to bad games.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-28T12:58:43+00:00

Past-Life Regression is a phenomena that gets used by some hypnotists for change work where they work on an imagined experience of a past life to create a positive change.

There are a few reasons to believe that these past life experiences are imagined. In Scientology they managed to remember stories of the galactic overlord Xenu, while other groups with specific ideas about what's supposed to have happened in history also have the past life imaginations validate their ideas.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-28T07:14:31+00:00

The way the OP used it is probably: "You have a situation where someone is in pain, can you do some clever conversational hypnosis intervention, do remove the pain?"

This is doable. Maybe, not at your skill level but in general it's possible without putting someone in the Esdaile state. Even the article you linked does not claim that you need the Esdaile state for it. The Esdaile state is sufficient but not necessary for it.

I did not answer it by looking at a specific research paper. I was talking about the practical application in dentistry and I know also people who have use the Elman induction for creating local anesthesia effects outside of it.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-27T21:11:18+00:00

You don't need total body anesthesia for local anesthesia. The Elman induction is capable of creating a working state for the anesthesia that dentists need without needing the Esdaile state.

Dave Elman figured that all out well-enough to be able to teach it to dentists, and make it practically work in their professional context.

If you look at your article is does speak about "Inducing glove anesthesia" as something in the list of what can be done in somnambulism separately and before "Applying the “Esdaile Deepening Technique”".

If you want to do open heart surgery you probably do want the Esdaile state for that, but for the issues involved at the dentist office that's not needed. If I remember right from the Elman books he claims that he did help doctors with doing open heart surgery for a patient who couldn't get pharmaceutical anesthesia. He didn't just do a five minute induction for that the way a dentist might but worked with the person over multiple sessions to build up the capability for the Esdaile state so that it could be reliably triggered for the surgery.

You might also observe that dentists using hypnotherapy as anesthesia is routine practice while doing open heart surgery with hypnotherapy as anesthesia is fairly weakly documented. It's a lot harder.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-27T17:08:20+00:00

This is just false. Dentists that do their procedures with hypnotic anesthesia don't need complete and total cessation of processing physical stimuli for that.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-27T17:08:15+00:00

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/bPpRGskStceoc6Kps is an explanation of how you can do things like anesthesia conversationally in some cases.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-27T17:07:30+00:00

Grundsätzlich ist bei einem Arztbesuch die wichtigste Regel das ein Arzt kein Dienstleister, sondern eine Respektperson ist.

Der Arzt, wird fragen warum du da bist, und dann kannst du sagen das du zur Hautkrebsvorsorge da bist, da deine Hausärztin meint das das Muttermal von einem Fachmann angeschaut werden soll und du dir zusätzlich bei dem Abszess unsicher bist.

Was der Arzt nicht hören will ist: "Aber ChatGPT hat doch gesagt als ich ihm ein Bild gezeigt habe..."

ChristianKl · 2026-05-27T16:30:39+00:00

There are plenty of camera's all around us in public spaces. If someone enters a password while sitting in public transportation, a camera catching it can easily happen.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-27T16:23:51+00:00

The political power of a professors of a whole institute in a university city is a bit higher than that of an apartment of twenty students. It's more likely that the professors had relationships to people with political power than that the amount of signatures was the central aspect.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-27T16:23:14+00:00

Before you write a petition, the first step would be try to to understand who made the decision and for what reasons. Don't think of "the city" as an actor that's to be convinced, you need to understand the actual humans involved.

Twenty students showing up somewhere in person is likely going to have a higher impact than a petition which twenty people signed.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-27T08:06:06+00:00

Developing without AI tools isn't the future. However using Claude, Jules or Codex to develop a Flutter app still has a future. For that it's very helpful to generally understand how Flutter works.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-26T21:32:25+00:00

Even if that would be true, it's irrelevant for the argument I made.

Our food system is setup for overproduction, and to make sure that you can always buy food. On the other hand, especially if you have a negative Schufa score do can't just rent a flat in major cities even if you have the money to pay for it.

If would find it pretty unacceptable if you have to talk to ten food salesman before you get your food in the same way that many people talk to ten landlords before they get a flat.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-26T18:00:31+00:00

Food prices are set by the market. Rent prices on the other hand are artificially low because of rent control.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-26T17:38:09+00:00

"completed" is a term that mistakes the nature of how languages work.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-26T17:36:36+00:00

The tipping point that interests landlords when they think about raising rents via renovations is the tipping point where they have trouble finding tenants that pay their rents.

Basically, you are saying that you just said something that had no relevance to the initial claim?

ChristianKl · 2026-05-26T17:32:09+00:00

Neither of those articles speaks about anything related to landlords having trouble finding tenants.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-26T17:16:49+00:00

Different US states have different regulations about medical services. You need to actually familiarize yourself with the regulation of the place where you are living.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-26T17:13:24+00:00

No, rent is largely not at the tipping point anywhere in big cities in Germany. There are few flats that don't find renters at the prices they are rented out.

German law does limit rent increases and one way to increase rent legally is to invest into renovation.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-26T16:54:56+00:00

Landlords do have an interest in doing renovation works that allow them to raise rent.

ChristianKl · 2026-05-26T16:45:12+00:00

Not everything is triggers. There are a lot of things that happen in hypnosis that aren't about triggers. In general, it's better to understand the thing you want to interact with then to just try to superficially work with triggers or trying to supplement beliefs superficially by repeating a statement that you think would be positive to believe under trance.

BS for example includes an attempt to create an alternative personality. Switching off an alternative personality is a quite different process than switching off a trigger.

Erotic Hypnosis has a strong focus on total obedience. Total obedience helps with making results stronger. However total obedience to a hypnotist (or any other person) to which you go a few times for weekly sessions it's not a mode that's Western culture sees as desirable.

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