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Everything is lined up for sub-optimal play. For a start, the setting is an emotive one. It's not just a numeric game with arbitrary tokens, it's about "the pe
by codebje 9mo ago
Everything is lined up for sub-optimal play.
For a start, the setting is an emotive one. It's not just a numeric game with arbitrary tokens, it's about "the perfect romantic partner." It would take an unusually self-isolating human to not identify who they feel their perfect match should be and bias towards that, subconsciously or consciously. We (nearly) all seek connection.
Then, it's reality TV. Contestants will be chosen for emotional volatility, and relentlessly manipulated to generate drama. No-one is going to watch a full season of a handful of math nerds take a few minutes to progress a worksheet towards a solution each week coupled with whatever they do to pass the time otherwise.
- pants2 9mo agoI'd watch a game show where you put a variety of math nerds on each team and watch them argue about the optimal strategy. Who's strategy will win? The quant analyst or the bioinformatician? Tune in next week!
- bryanhogan 9mo agoReminds me a bit of Devils Plan, or other similar reality game shows in Korea / Asia.
- empathy_m 9mo agoWatched a fantastic film about this on the plane a few years ago, "Liar Game - Reborn". There is some fairly sophisticated logic puzzling and scheming going on (see e.g. sample illustration https://imgur.com/a/0AOb67G https://imgur.com/a/0AOb67G from an interlude about 50min in where there are 3 groups of people who mutually distrust each other, each know a secret collection of 3-4 integers unique to their group, and want to deniably pass share integers with each other which are "not my team's". Another participant watches what happened and realizes in retrospect this is how the info was shared.) A lot more upbeat than "Alice in Borderland".
- jncfhnb 9mo agoI saw a couple devils plan and felt they were trying to imply Mathematical scheming without substance. There was one guy who kept talking about “science” but then his “game theory” for a game of mafia was “social distancing” like Covid…
- nrhrjrjrjtntbt 9mo agoNeed to find out their psycopath screening technique
- yaur 9mo agoJust Ask them to describe Shannon Entropy. If they start talking about information they are out, if they start talking about their crazy cousin they are in.
- pityJuke 9mo agoCharlie Brooker did a good bit (in 2007!) about picking the right candidates for a mock reality TV show: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NGkJxju3uKo https://youtube.com/watch?v=NGkJxju3uKo
- bronco21016 9mo agoWe need a ManningCast version of the show. For those unaware, ManningCast is a show following an NFL game with special guests and nontraditional commentary and analysis. Think of it kind of like having the Mannings in the living room while watching an NFL game. In my hypothetical version of "Are you the one?", the math nerds would be giving commentary and explaining the math behind how they'll solve "Are you the one?" while also hilariously explaining how foolish the contestants' theories are.
- vintermann 9mo ago> No-one is going to watch a full season of a handful of math nerds take a few minutes to progress a worksheet towards a solution each week coupled with whatever they do to pass the time otherwise. Um, what about those of us who watch Blood on the Clocktower streams?
- codebje 9mo agoBoth of you are the exceptions that prove the rule?