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@riseupcomus though in the 1e dmg the "handling groups of 20+ players" time in the campaign discussion is immediately followed by the section below, so it's hard for me to imagine Mr. Gygax not heartily endorsing the quote's application to both contexts:

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@eigenrobot Just need to design a mechanism such that no one with even the remotest possible influence on the decision stands to save money by it going through

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@mycoliza The Tune Finder utility here https://t.co/At1EzTfbxl is an essential tool for fiddle tune notation - many a rare tune found nowhere else online, and the associated homepage is a type specimen for this sort of site

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@Empty_America Vague sense something like this may have happened before, mountain people speaking something like Albanian repopulating previously Romanized or Hellenized coast and plains after the upheavals of late antiquity/early middle ages.

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@eigenrobot This, also, is philosophy

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@MadVictorZ Do you have any favorite pieces of work (papers, textbooks, software tools) that embrace this mindset of optimization as a discovery tool particularly well?

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@ch402 power, and contribution to human agency. Space exploration is tough to beat, with its celestial bodies named for gods, ancient roots, sheer scale and appeal to deep human desires. But I think there is a lot to draw from there.

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@ch402 (some older large scale infrastructure projects, a lot of space technology and a lot of sci-fi tech more broadly) usually does tap into such aesthetics. I don't think these are usually superficialities either, but reliable signals of a technology's longetivity, trustworthiness,

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@andy_matuschak @aresnick @SriniKadamati @michael_nielsen @nayafia Absolutely (I can attest) - though it does seem to be a built in feature of large parts of the modern research enterprise!

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@andy_matuschak @aresnick @SriniKadamati @michael_nielsen @nayafia In particular, seems like this sort of approach would widen the audience for funding mechanisms like prizes and mini grants

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@andy_matuschak @aresnick @SriniKadamati @michael_nielsen @nayafia Does time vs. pay just scale that nonlinearly? Split time has some downsides, but doesn't seem to be too different from many academic research positions in practice (with teaching, grants, administrative work, etc.), and might have upsides.

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@jasoncrawford Though I have a sense that such jobs are tough to negotiate in most areas - maybe if it were easier we'd see more "inventors."

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@jasoncrawford Maybe today that means something like a technically-adjacent part time job providing enough flexibility for side experimentation, while ideally providing things like a steady income, a network, tools (broadly defined), and exposure to the folk knowledge of a field.