Posts tagged: literary criticism

Prediction Markets Are Not a Drop-In Replacement for Concepts

In "Comment on a Scene from Planecrash: 'Crisis of Faith'", I criticized a scene in which Keltham (a magical universe-teleportation victim from an alternate Earth called dath ilan) plays dumb about why a pre-industrial Society would only choose males for military conscription.

Planecrash coauthor Eliezer Yudkowsky comments:

Keltham wouldn't be …