Comments on: Hyperbole In Game Theory Part 117

By: UnSub

UnSub — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:55:19 +0000

Of course, in an Objectivist view government-funded police are a waste of resources, so it is likely Gevlon would prefer the M&S pay for their own executions.

By: geldonyetich

geldonyetich — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:16:03 +0000

He’s saying that people who had fallen below a certain earning threshold (say the lower 10% of the population) were little more than wastes of human life for which society would be better off having cops gun down and leave in a ditch.

But now because we’re dealing with way more than 10% of the population being below a certain earning threshold, due to the minimum qualification bar being set too high, he’s had a change of heart! The ditches would overflow with corpses, therefore, alternate solutions must be found! But, don’t worry, his change of heart isn’t going to turn him into a socialist.

Basically, he’s the typical ultra-conservative opening his mouth wide enough that the resemblance to Nazi Germany-style fascism is making itself more evident than usual.

By: Guido Sarducci

Guido Sarducci — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:41:57 +0000

my head hurts. So, let me try to boil this down… Cops are there to deal with people who want your shit? Or is it Cops are there because cops like guns? and people with no money? Or some money?

HUH?!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:01:11 +0000

@We Fly Spitfires You know, I used to pity his attitude and get all riled up reading his posts. Now though, I think he's engaged in a Sasha Baron Cohen style social experiment and none of his rants are actually his thoughts on society. At least that's how I sleep at night.

By: Flimgoblin

Flimgoblin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:51:59 +0000

M&S catering? get some quite good food from M&S. Not the cheapest and they totally overpackage everything.

Hmm…
This is not just any gaming hyperbole – this is M&S gaming hyperbole.

(apologies to anyone not from the UK who won’t pick up any of that)

By: UnSub

UnSub — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:25:25 +0000

If computer games help prove real-world points, I reserve the right to claim that Objectivism is a massive failure because BioShock said so.

Also: Counterstrike is a fair game? Really? Not when I played.

By: Jormundgard

Jormundgard — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:28:08 +0000

He’s such a dope. I’m convinced he’s playing a role on that blog, because nobody could be so utterly single-minded. But resolving his fantastically skewed view of the world is part of the fun.

By: geldonyetich

geldonyetich — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:50:41 +0000

Now, now, he’s not saying he’ll shoot anyone. He’s saying it’s the cops’ job to mass-murder those darn unproductive minorities.

To Protect And Serve.

By: Raad

Raad — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:02:02 +0000

Lets give him the guns and see how many he can shoot, hell we can even line them up for him. Talk is cheap.

By: neuro

neuro — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:18:13 +0000

Gevlon often speaks about WoW as of nothing more than a proxy for the real world. Even though he never (often?) doesn’t acknowledge that maybe he is an M&S for some very skilled individual, his point is interesting… How can we all be happy if we adopt the same measure of happiness (raid progress, money as proxies) and we have free markets and we aren’t equally good at “being happy”?

Actually in that post he reached the conclusion that you can’t just shoot people that are M&S compared to you, which should be a cause for celebration for those people who are sometimes shocked by his opinions.

Of course he promises he won’t become a “socialist” because of this realisation, but at least I think he’s a on a path that leads to better acceptance of *reality* and will perhaps move on to write about it without the need for arbitrary WoW allegories (and without calling for shootouts).