Rationality Cardinality
post by jimrandomh · 2021-04-27T22:27:27.412Z · LW · GW · 7 commentsContents
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Rationality Cardinality is a humorous card game, built out of rationality concepts and vocabulary and designed to teach them. I have recently finished an online-game implementation, which can be embedded into gather.town worlds. Try it out by joining the Rationality Cardinality gather.town server! It helps to have other people to play with, so I suggest Saturday May 1, 11am PST as a Schelling meetup time.
Rationality Cardinality is a two-for one combined bet on dick jokes and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Sapir-Whorf is the hypothesis that many people are bottlenecked on what thoughts they can think, on having vocabulary for the relevant concepts. I've been curating a set of cards (concepts, explanations, and jokes) over the years, and I'm quite proud of it. (Except for the cards about concepts that fell to the replication crisis, of course.)
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comment by gilch · 2021-04-27T23:34:53.859Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
(Except for the cards about concepts that fell to the replication crisis, of course.)
Do we have a list of those somewhere? I need to learn what to unlearn.
Replies from: Benito↑ comment by Ben Pace (Benito) · 2021-04-28T00:15:20.405Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
"Please give me an anki deck of concepts to unlearn."
(Can't tell if this is a good idea or not, but it sounded funny.)
comment by Yoav Ravid · 2021-04-28T04:08:13.157Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
If you're using search to figure out if someone made "cards against humanity" for rationality, this post is what you're looking for (just helping your SEO :P)
comment by Morpheus · 2024-05-21T16:58:36.356Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I've recently tried to play this again with @Towards_Keeperhood [LW · GW]. We think it was still working a year ago. He would be happy to pay a 50$ bounty for this to get fixed by reverting it to the previous version (or whatever happened there). If the code was public that would also be helpful, because then I might get to fixing it.
comment by plex (ete) · 2021-05-12T19:40:45.769Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Excellent! Is there (or will there be) a physical version of this? If no, would you give permission to others to create one?
I can imagine many more situations where I'd like to plan this in real life than online.
Replies from: adamisom↑ comment by adamisom · 2023-09-21T18:25:01.801Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I messaged Jim on a different platform and he promptly replied:
You can get a zipfile of card images from https://carddb.rationalitycardinality.com/card/export/images
Woot! I haven't done this before but my plan is to order cheap, fast card sleeves from amazon, and also cheap playing cards, regular-print the card images, and do sleeve <- card-image on top of playing-card (for backing)
There's also this currently-defunct link to buy a nicer print version than that, maybe the link will be fixed when you read this, idk: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/rationality-cardinality-beta-6
comment by jimrandomh · 2021-04-27T23:33:13.183Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Facebook event for playing it on Saturday: https://www.facebook.com/events/2458841070927866/.