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FDT and the sacrificial volunteer's dilemma

Consider the " twin sacrificial volunteer's dilemma ": [1] 1000 identical agents have the same deterministic decision-making process and the same observations, and can't communicate with each other. They can decide to either do nothing, or pay $1 to volunteer. If at least one agent volunteers, everyone who didn't volunteer gets $1 million [2] . Volunteers never receive anything. All of this is common knowledge. Payoff matrix for clarity: You don't volunteer You volunteer Nobody else volunteers $0 -$1 Someone else volunteers $1M -$1 Because the agents all make decisions the same way, there are

LessWrong · EN

An ode to plaintext

I consider myself a simple boring guy, I like ed, I enjoy eating plain pasta, I wear only a few clothes in rotation, and my favourite way of writing and reading text is plaintext. There is something appealing about .txt files for me, it's only characters that all look mostly the same, none are bold, none are bigger, none have a background. Plaintext works everywhere, every computer can render it, it's fast, it's quiet, it's most likely futureproof, it's portable, I love it. If I could, I would have everything written in plaintext. It's limitations make it predictable. It doesn't have links or

Kagi Small Web · EN

sequoia pgp

TL;DR If you are a PGP newbie (like me) then consider reading sq user documentation book! It gave me an idea of how to use the sq tool and how PGP concepts map to it. The book also has a “Background” section that I missed so much to get a better grasp of PGP model. Story mode I created my first PGP key in 2008: $ gpg --list-public-keys slyich@gmail.com pub dsa1024/0x71A1EE76611FF3AA 2008-10-18 [SC] [revoked: 2018-07-04] 9929AD151B96AF651958D35871A1EE76611FF3AA uid [ revoked] Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@...> uid [ revoked] Sergei Trofimovich <st@...> uid [ revoked] Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@...

trofi - All posts · EN