Thursday, April 15, 2021

Proposal: Soft Reset

Quorum of against votes reached. Fails 1-8—Clucky

Adminned at 16 Apr 2021 05:33:22 UTC

Enact a new subrule of “Nosy Researchers” entitled “Researcher Bias” as follows:

Each AI has a publicly tracked value called Leeway. Leeway defaults to 0. An AI may transfer 1 Leeway to another AI as a Daily Action.

If the Facility Head would Reinitialize an AI, but that AI has at least 1 Leeway, then instead of Reinitializing the AI, the Facility Head must perform an Atomic Action as follows:

  1. Set that AI’s Suspicion to the median Suspicion among all other AIs.
  2. Decrement that AI’s Leeway by 1.

Comments

Lulu: she/her

15-04-2021 15:42:13 UTC

Leeway doesn’t sound like the greatest flavor here.  Maybe something like Trust?

Josh: Observer he/they

15-04-2021 16:01:43 UTC

I like leeway.

I assume that this is a potential Favour edge?

Clucky: he/him

15-04-2021 16:06:43 UTC

I personally think it would be interesting to see us try experimenting away from “daily actions” in this dynasty to using conspicuous / treacherous actions. This feels like a fine conspicuous action.

Kevan: he/him

15-04-2021 16:10:15 UTC

Calling this “Trust” seems bit at odds with the existing Suspicion stat. The ambiguity of “Leeway” works for me - that an AI is being given more freedom for some reason, without that purely being a matter of the facility trusting it.

Lulu: she/her

15-04-2021 16:15:20 UTC

Ah, yes, I forgot about that.  This is fine, then.

Brendan: he/him

15-04-2021 16:28:37 UTC

Clucky, I see your point, but I think making the reset of one’s Suspicion an act that gives one more Suspicion saps this ability in a way that I’d rather avoid.

Darknight: he/him

15-04-2021 17:55:22 UTC

imperial  for now, as it’s past the edit window

pokes:

15-04-2021 18:01:33 UTC

against The transfer part feels too pooly.

Clucky: he/him

15-04-2021 18:23:56 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

15-04-2021 18:40:49 UTC

against I like it, but Favours (of which I have zero) are casting a long shadow over it.

Janet: she/her

15-04-2021 19:22:41 UTC

imperial

Zack: he/him

15-04-2021 19:49:52 UTC

imperial

Lulu: she/her

15-04-2021 21:30:47 UTC

against

lemon: she/her

15-04-2021 22:05:54 UTC

against per pokes and kevan

Brendan: he/him

15-04-2021 22:33:24 UTC

Lemon, would you rather see a different way of gaining Leeway that’s not dependent on Favours, or would you rather not see anything that could consume Favours?

lemon: she/her

16-04-2021 00:36:49 UTC

the fact that it can be effortlessly spread between pools + can have a huge impact weakening one of the scarier parts of the dynasty for only a few favours. i’m all for things that can consume favours, but this proposal would make the reinitializer a little toothless!