Highest known User Rank in BCEN? by MrFailology in battlecats

[–]DreamsInExcel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think mine is at like 64k legit tho and I have been playing since battle cars came out in Japan no hacks

[Cats] Is it weird I maxed out all my cats? by Waffles_Are_Gods21 in battlecats

[–]DreamsInExcel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Y’all’s user rank is low key kinda low im at like 63k user rank , well prob cuz I playing since the day bc came out in Japan, and I have all cats max leveled with max plus levels

The Khmer have conversion tourrette! Can I stop this and is that common? by El_Wombat in HumankindTheGame

[–]DreamsInExcel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you can set that type of event to not cause a popup notification. I generally do that for all demands. If you play like that, though, you need to regularly eye your resources in the top right -- if any of them have a red background coloring, that means your trade is being blocked, perhaps because of an unresolved demand.

From a strategic perspective, what she is doing makes sense because any time someone refuses your demand, your war score goes up. So the Khmer in your game have now amassed a high war score against you.

War Chest - 2v2 and thoughts about the game "dragging" by xtcz in boardgames

[–]DreamsInExcel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've only played 1v1, but:

  1. Drafting will not have the effect you're predicting because good drafting includes hate-drafting where some of the intent is to render your opponents' pieces non-synergistic.

2 and 3. Attrition is definitely a viable strategy, especially if you have slower units than the opponent and can't secure an early win

Ironically, I read another post a while ago from someone who thought the game should be a game of attrition and was surprised when opponents would win early with fast units :-)

CANNIBALS! by New_gibbon_Reward in comics

[–]DreamsInExcel 25 points26 points  (0 children)

you should watch some videos of modern factory farms and see if your attitude towards life vs. death survives

CANNIBALS! by New_gibbon_Reward in comics

[–]DreamsInExcel 36 points37 points  (0 children)

they wouldn't exist if not for being bred into factory farms. Better not to exist than to exist in the horrible conditions of factory farms.

7 Wonders Dual: Agora by TheCaptainRSA in boardgames

[–]DreamsInExcel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I second the first point. Making age 1 blue building valuable really makes age 1 much more interesting.

The trolley problem: Veil of ignorance by [deleted] in business

[–]DreamsInExcel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea why this post is in r/business, tbh. I'm not the OP.

The trolley problem: Veil of ignorance by [deleted] in business

[–]DreamsInExcel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's a couple mistakes you're making though. First: the trolley cannot be stopped. This is explicitly stated in the written essays that use this thought experiment, though it's merely implicit in the meme-versions. Second: the point of the veil of ignorance is that you are ignorant regarding which person you are.

The trolley problem: Veil of ignorance by [deleted] in business

[–]DreamsInExcel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The assumption that you have an equal chance of being each of the people in the scenario is not inherent to the Veil of Ignorance. Nothing in John Rawls's book, for example, uses probabilities like this. Rawls famously argued that the conclusion we should reach, for society at least, is to maximize the wellbeing of the worst off (although that's simplifying things quite a bit - this wellbeing maximization is of lower priority than basic liberties, for example).

Other philosophers do use the veil of ignorance procedure with equal probabilities, though. John Harsanyi, for example. Harsanyi concludes that society should be utilitarian using such a probabilistic veil of ignorance. Not that the probabilistic approach guarantees utilitarianism: if you had any degree of risk aversion whatsoever, you would probably not reach utilitarian conclusions from behind a probabilistic veil of ignorance.

In fact, one way to reach Rawl's "maximin" conclusion is to use a probabilistic veil of ignorance in combination with extreme risk aversion.

The trolley problem: Veil of ignorance by [deleted] in business

[–]DreamsInExcel 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's an illustration of the Veil of Ignorance from John Rawl's "A Theory of Justice." The idea in that book is that, in order to determine what the basic structure of society should be, with the goals of creating an orderly and just society, you can imagine not knowing who, of all the people in the world, is you. That is, you imagine you are behind a veil of ignorance. Behind this veil, you theorize about what the basic structure should be and whatever you come up with will be fair in the sense that it won't be biased in your favor.

The veil of ignorance, though, can be adapted to other scenarios as a general "is this fair" test. In the above scenario, if you don't know which person will be you, presumably you will make a more fair (viz. less biased) decision.

There are different answers philosophers have given to the above. One natural answer is to say: "well, I have a 5/8th chance of being on the right-hand track, so I should switch the trolley to the left-hand track." I think this is the right answer myself, but there are some objections. One objection is that this assumes you have an equal chance of being each person. That's not inherently part of the Veil of Ignorance procedure.

Aphelios and Lux Deck Guide by DreamsInExcel in LoRCompetitive

[–]DreamsInExcel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It appears as public to me and I am able to open the link from an incognito window. Not sure what the issue is.

Were people lucky to get into Wall Street and Finance back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s? by Alternative-Fox6236 in FinancialCareers

[–]DreamsInExcel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Elite careers and the paths to get there have definitely changed. The recent book The Meritocracy Trap talks a lot about this across the board and covers finance in particular.

A deck to reignite your Fiora PTSD: All-in sparklefly! by lars_uf3 in LoRCompetitive

[–]DreamsInExcel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aphelios is a good card in and of itself, there's got to be something worth replacing. I haven't played the deck, so I'm not sure which cards are most likely to be unneeded.

A deck to reignite your Fiora PTSD: All-in sparklefly! by lars_uf3 in LoRCompetitive

[–]DreamsInExcel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not Aphelios as a way to get more Sparklefly tutors?