[Game Over] Newbie 1900 - Robocalypse

[lionheart1492]

volxen (L-3)

: Auro, Flavor Leaf

YurikoJasmine (L-3)

: YurikoJasmine, Not_Mafia

Lamees (L-4)

: white candy

Auro (L-4)

: Lamees

white candy (L-4)

: volxen

Not_Mafia (L-4)

: lionheart1492

snowbeast

We're going on a scum hunt
We're gonna catch at least one (I hope)
I'm not scared
What a beautiful day!

VOTE: Not_Mafia
Scummiest name world.

[Auro]

Lionheart was probably the bravest of the volunteers. I noticed that he seemed new to the world, though. I wondered if he'd heard of/participated in these experiments before. So I had to ask:

Lion, what's your experience with Mafia games?

[lionheart1492]

I have not played a game of mafia in over 2 years and I was pretty bad back then but I'm gonna try it out now because the game has always been super cool to me. Overall I have <10 games of experience, never on this forum.

[volxen]

I had always been bothered by the rumours that a few early M.A.F.I.A prototypes had been released into the populace. Word was that it was *very* hard to distinguish them from a normal human -- an ever so slight thirst to annihilate the rest and conquer. Maybe the manufacturers changed that for the robots they released? No one knows.

One thing always bothered me, though. What if I was one of them? What if I wasn't born a simple, free, human; but a bloodthirsty robot who lacked any true identity? This single thought had always taken a backseat in my mind. It increasingly began to have a greater effect on my daily life, leading to an eventual obsession. I could not invest my energies in anything else, and lost everything I had.

When I was offered a chance to 'volunteer' for the experiment, I was told that I would know my identity -- whether I was human, or a bot --- before the experiment started. Apparently RandomAccess, one of the volunteers, had failed to read his instruction card (a malfunctioning robot or an unwilling human, there was no point keeping him) and I replaced him instead.

Miss Star repeated the instructions for me, and guided me to the glass room. I saw that most others had taken their cards from the tesseract table, and proceeded to take my own and read it.

I breathed a sigh of relief. I finally knew what I was. Or to be more precise, who I am.
And then it hit me that if I did not find out which ones were the M.A.F.I.A, I'd... probably die anyway.

I had a good, hard look around the room. I recognized a few of the volunteers - Lamees, Volxen, and Not_Mafia, from before. Volxen's avatar looked like what they called a "Transformer" to me. A sentient robot. It seemed obvious what my starting point should be.

VOTE: Volxen

The tone of this post is fairly robotic. Seems more likely to come from robot!Auro than human!Auro.

VOTE: Auro

[Auro]

Now, you might be wondering as a reader - When did I write all of this?
Truth is, I'm writing this long after the experiment was conducted. I'm not allowed to talk about what happens after my part in the experiment. Obviously I already know how the experiment ended, but there's no fun in spoiling it for you, is it?

Anyway, back to the experiment. The transformer had voted me minutes after I noticed the oddness about him, on a tonal judgment; I later learned this might have been a possible "OMGUS" of sorts. This behaviour usually came more from robots than humans, or so I heard. Maybe my gut feeling was right. Maybe. However, I wanted to question him on it further, and said:

Volxen, what makes the flavor tone more likely to come from robot!Auro?
Is it a pure, isolated tonal judgment you're making, or are you comparing it with my previous scumgame?
Motivation-wise, do you see anything that makes it more likely scummy?

[Lamees]

Having everyone taking a captcha should solve this.

[Auro]

Unfortunately though, Captcha-solving was pretty easy for these prototypes. The technological marvels that they were, they far surpassed current Computer Vision Neural Network algorithms, and possessed an ability to derive abstractions from learned knowledge and transfer them elsewhere. A kind of... common sense, you could say. Just like us humans.

However, I surmised that the best chance I had of passing this experiment was to begin to work with the other volunteers. I waved over to Lamees, and said:

Lamees, hop on board the Volxwagon!

[YurikoJasmine]

Unfortunately though, Captcha-solving was pretty easy for these prototypes. The technological marvels that they were, they far surpassed current Computer Vision Neural Network algorithms, and possessed an ability to derive abstractions from learned knowledge and transfer them elsewhere. A kind of... common sense, you could say. Just like us humans.

However, I surmised that the best chance I had of passing this experiment was to begin to work with the other volunteers. I waved over to Lamees, and said:

Lamees, hop on board the Volxwagon!

Why Lamees in particular

[Auro]

Because Lamees was online? Anyone can sheep me and join the wagon, wagons are good. You join, too.

[Lamees]

FL what are you doing? Looks scummy to me.

[Auro]

FL what are you doing? Looks scummy to me.

What do you think Flavor Leaf is doing, and how is that scummy?
I see that he's simply sheeping my vote and wagoning, isn't that pro-town, Lamees?

[Lamees]

FL what are you doing? Looks scummy to me.

What do you think Flavor Leaf is doing, and how is that scummy?
I see that he's simply sheeping my vote and wagoning, isn't that pro-town, Lamees?

Omgus isn't really alignment indicative.

[Auro]

Omgus isn't really alignment indicative.

What does that have to do with Flavor Leaf?
Wait, what do you mean by "FL"?

[Lamees]

Is omgus enough to sheep a wagon? Or is there a different reason?

[Auro]

Wagon for wagon's sake, to test reactions, to push the game forward. It's RVS!

[lionheart1492]

UNVOTE: Not_Mafia
VOTE: Yuriko Jasmine

What purpose does your question to auro serve if you are town?

[Flavor Leaf]

FL what are you doing? Looks scummy to me.

The guy put a lot of effort into his role playing, was sheeping his RVS vote

[Auro]

Also, Flavor Leaf's sheeping was *before* I brought up OMGUSing.

[Lamees]

I know. Which is why I needed clarity. Anyways time for me to get out of RVS.

UNVOTE:

[Flavor Leaf]

Omgus isn't really alignment indicative.

What does that have to do with Flavor Leaf?
Wait, what do you mean by "FL"?

I’m FL.

F

lavor

L

eaf.

[Auro]

I know. "FL what are you doing? Looks scummy to me" I thought she meant your sheeping was scummy, then she said OMGUS, and the OMGUS was *after* your sheep so couldn't be connected to you, so I thought FL might have meant something else.

[Auro]

If M.A.F.I.A bots were truly AGI in the sense that they could beat us in advanced Turing tests, possessing abstracted knowledge systems and 'common sense' like humans, this would likely spell doom for humans. Firstly, it's difficult enforcing rules on bot¹ - they can always interpret a rule in a fashion which WE humans find undesirable. Second, the lack of biology means they can self-improve rapidly² . We'd have an unbound rate of growth in intelligence, and these super-intelligent bots can do *whatever* they want to. Eeks. Scary.

Made me want to nail them bots even more in the experiment. The human team *had* to win. Although...

Interactions were sparse. I could see quite a few people napping. What even? If we were going to take this experiment seriously, we'd have to talk to each other. I wouldn't want a bot to wake up at the end with everyone else dead. Occasionally someone would mutter something, but I felt we were getting no where closer towards solving the experiment.

[1]: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer

[2]: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Intelligence_explosion

Mod edit:

fixed colour hue

[Not_Mafia]

ty;cr

[Auro]

Robot lingo?
"Thank You, Charming Read"
"Terrific, Yep, Can Respect"
"Tofu Yuuuuck, Canned Raisins"

(Yeah, I'm on Maf dark -- which color should I use? Orange? Red? I want to differentiate between roleplay and actual content)

[snowbeast]

@auro, your role playing confused me into thinking you where a second MOD.
Now we are on the same page it all makes sens haha.