Ok. Alpha is an android whose information is the secret to immortality.
Bravo is the evil force, nah that won't do...Bravo is the unknown force(AKA
the singularity-in-waiting). Charlie is an aging homo sapiens on the verge
of discovering the pathway to cognitive self-awareness/self-determination.
That perhaps 'enlivens' the players a tad.
Nowthen, the payoff, IYW: 1 year of existence replaces each $10. The $100
ante becomes 10 years of existence; so each player loses ten years of
existence just by choosing to play the game. Perhaps the payoffs should
then be expanded as I'm not sure how many players would risk 10 years of
existence for the opportunity to win 25 years-of-existence(YOE) for a net
gain of 15YOE. Of course qualia then rears its' red head and tries to assign
an exchange rate to the YOE across the various entities. But let's not steal
threads from others canvas to mend our hol(e)y garment...when surely, their
garment is already unraveling.
> ...Then the following outcomes
> are possible:
>
> 1) uwy
> 2) uwz
> 3) uxy
> 4) uxz
> 5) vwy
> 6) vwz
> 7) vxy
> 8) vxz
Arghhhh!!
All I wanted was a touchy-feely intuitive f***-with-your-head female gender
type of game. And you've gone and turned it into a
computational-definitional cyborgian-appendage turn-the-power-on-max male
gender game :(((
Alas.
...> ending possiblity because any of the players can stop the round at
> any time.
Ahhh...I dislike this greatly. I say immediate non-existence to any entity
withdrawing from play!
>First lets agree that these are all the possible outcomes,
Ha! Sounds like the naiveté that only fleetingly exists upon one's wedding
day<g>.
> So this is my first guess at a payoff matrix:
> outcome A gets B gets C gets
> 1) uwy 100 100 100
> 2) uwz 150 150 0
> 3) uxy 150 0 150
> 4) uxz 200 50 50
> 5) vwy 0 150 150
> 6) vwz 50 200 50
> 7) vxy 50 50 200
> 8) vxz 100 100 100
> Nowthen, if each outcome is equally likely, does this
> payoff matrix look about right?
O! I knew I should have turned in four YOE to get that CSEE degree. Well,
let's see if I can dust off the original factory-installed processor. Gawd!
It's a mess in here, I can't tell the wires from the axons.
So, I'm game...if I can be the red piece, and you...sire?
ct
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