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I did read about the term "ludonarrative dissonance" but I've elected to leave it out. One, I don't know a whole lot about it. Two, it seems very specific to certain video games. Three, I read somewhere that it is sometimes mocked within the industry, and I just don't know anything much about...

This is a + thread 🙏 The purpose of this + thread is to learn if cognitive dissonance happens if/when playing our favorite game, and what if anything we’ve done about it. What is cognitive dissonance? Cognitive dissonance is (and hopefully this is an accurate summary): Perceiving...

But who objectively determines that? What if there is disagreement if it's "genuine"? Do you need a jury? A voting mechanism? How does that work in practical terms?

Ya, that's a tough problem. The following assumes (depending on the reader) that a solution is desirable: For the poster: I think it's incumbent on the poster to be as clear as they can, within reason (including whatever real-life stuff they have going on) (or refrain from posting until a more...

In the case of that thread, it's not breaking the forum rules, right? The + thread protects the petition's right to exist, but it does not require that positive contributions to the premise must be 100% comfortable to the OP point-of-view, right? If a + thread is so uncomfortable to someone, I...

Very interesting topic! Some interesting things I could learn! Getting worried about the signal to noise ratio! Definitely de-centering myself from that conversation!

So the last person standing is not necessarily the one with strongest argument but the one with the most persistence? Sounds like Mental 100

I like it and find it pertinent, though it might benefit from a short bullet-point summary at the top? Also I feel like as a general rule, a lot of great non-contentious content does not get discussed as much as more contentious ones.

Hey that's cool, my thing is catching on :)

That's fair and to my point about synthesizing different POVs, I think it is useful, that if we look upthread, to see there's at least 2 sides on this general topic: We all see the current situation with the public access version of ChatGPT, AI research & development, etc. and perhaps we split...

For what it's worth, I think: - for myself, my best decisions were a synthesis of intuition + reasoning. Intuition for where I didn't have enough information at hand. Reason for where I knew my intuition had blind spots from unconscious biases - for other people and external circumstances, I...

Oh. In the book (I hope that doesn't start sounding annoying), they run the same scenario through different ethical frameworks to compare the results. That was interesting to see each framework in action on the same benchmark.

I also read that one issue with Kantian ethics is that in the real world, in real-time, it's going to take some time and thought to construct a fitting universal maxim and maybe this is an emergency and you need to make an ethical decision like right now!! That's not necessarily a problem for...

I forget, did Kant allow for qualifiers in a stated maxim in order to make it universally OK? i.e., is okay to steal a few dollars from the cash register at work if I desperately need the money for medicine?

The day must come when every + thread is kicked out of the nest Will it soar in the skies, exulting in its purpose? Will it plummet to the earth, losing its way? Most likely the latter

That's true. I guess I was thinking of a typical campaign where you take your PC from level 1 to xx and you really want to keep going with that PC for a sense of incremental progress. But I agree with you that caring about your character could mean swapping PCs however many times. It just...

If I understood your question correctly, I think one starting point is to ask: where do we the draw the line between caring about the character and caring about the game? Because I think that's a very blurry line. Just for example, your character, Alex, has just gone through a heart-wrenching...

I can work with these... My marriage to my former co-worker has so many problems that aren't about a nail. Every day ending in 'y', we tried nothing and we're out of ideas. If only it were Mittwoch, we could sympathize with each other's venting and then hammer out a divorce.

What do you call it when someone is complaining about a problem that has been occurring over and over and over, for a very long time, and a proposed solution or two is offered which might help get them unstuck from this quagmire, which you can't know for sure if it will work, but surely anything...

I have a hypothesis, but it is completely unsubstantiated and I cannot defend it, just throwing it out there as one possibility. Often, when criticized, we double-down on our original position, sometime being even more entrenched (it has something to do with the cognitive dissonance of 'No it's...