The Syndicate

Marluxion and Vulgard BTSC

Tangchlosyn and staypositivefriend BTSC

nutella and Dyslexicon BTSC

dunya wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:22 pm thanks JAY for your effort in teaching us this class!!

Thanks for modding boo

And thanks to everyone who even watched a portion of one lecture video in this game and to those who diligently attempted those quizzes. This theme was kind of meant to be a dumb joke, and I threw it into the queue on a whim. I did not anticipate this silly thing to attract so many friends from the broader Mafia community, and when it did I kind of straightened my tie and decided to take my own game a little more seriously.

Day 1
Gavial eliminated

Night 1
Hally vigilante kills KZA
sunbae jailkeeps outed wolf (1 of 2)
Amy tracks bronana (1 of 2)
Marluxion selects Vulgard for N2 BTSC
KZA kills Hally
KZA role cops outed wolf (1 of 2)

Day 2
Alison eliminated

Night 2
Marluxion and Vulgard BTSC
sunbae jailkeeps Vulgard
Amy tracks Dyslexicon (2 of 2)
bronana makes a post
Vulgard role blocks sunbae (1 of 2, FAIL, jailer priority)
Vulgard kills sunbae (FAIL, jailed)
Chloe selects staypositivefriend for N3 BTSC

Day 3
Vulgard eliminated

Night 3
Syn and staypositivefriend BTSC
dyachei kills sunbae
sunbae jailkeeps Syn

Day 4
dyachei eliminated

Night 4
c4 kills Amy
nutella selects Dyslexicon for N5 BTSC

Day 5
Syn eliminated

Night 5
nutella and Dyslexicon BTSC
c4 kills Marluxion

Day 6
Arete eliminated

Night 6
c4 kills bronana

Day 7
bronana makes a dead post
Arete makes a dead post
outed wolf eliminated

Night 7
c4 kills nutella

Day 8
c4 eliminated

This game was... bizarre to watch.

All in all though I thought it was well-played by both sides. The mafia were well-positioned if not for very unfortunate luck with sunbae's clutch jailing choice and my own pre-game shrug rule that jailer trumps role blocker. Props to c4 for sticking it out and lasting at least two cycles longer than I anticipated. My ideal hosting experience is to end with a final 3 by whatever means, and he did the game great honor to get it there. Town played a great team game early, stumbled, derped, and eventually found their way.

@Alison
@Amy
@Arete
@bronana
@Dyslexicon
@Gavial
@Hally
@Marluxion
@nutella
@outed wolf
@staypositivefriend
@sunbae
@Syn

Those of you who are the banner types may fly this one with pride.



@nutella has earned a bonus banner for a perfect semester-long performance on every quiz.

Thanks for playing everyone. I'll have banners for you when I get out of this meeting.

Day 8 has ended.

c4e5g3d5 has been eliminated. He was the full-ride football player who does exactly as much as necessary to earn a D-.

Night 7 has ended.

nutella has been killed. She finished at the top of her class.


Day 8 is underway. This will be the final phase of the game. VOTES ARE LOCKED. ONCE YOU PLACE A VOTE YOU MAY NOT CHANGE IT. The game will end when a player has received two votes OR when 48 hours have elapsed.

1. Do you agree with Richard Feynman's general perception of social and psychological science? Why or why not?

2. How do you think Richard Feynman would feel about the psychophysical laws of sensation? Explain. Each of these first two questions is opinion-driven, so answers won't be "wrong" if they are reasonably attempted.

3. Weber's law describes what relationship between the just noticeable difference and stimulus intensity?

4. What two factors are related to one another by Steven's Power Law?

Day 7 has ended.

outed wolf has been eliminated. He was the student who insists on referencing my slides from class in proper APA format in half of his paragraphs to fill space, and it's adorable.

Night 6 has ended.

bronana has been killed. He was the student that stays in the classroom 20 minutes overtime just to shoot the cognitive scientific shit.


Day 7 is underway. You have 48 hours to place your votes. There is no hammer.

1. A Mafia Championship participant has received a mafia role card for their qualifier. Their first post in mafia chat reads as follows:

“Okay, here’s how we’re going to win this game, folks. We’re going to float around in a state of relative normality, and then on exactly the sixteen-hundred tenth post one of you will accidentally make a mafia chat post in the game thread. This post will out another member of our team and clear a town player by extension. At end game we will win by eliminating the town player we cleared by vote.”

Would construal level theory anticipate something like this? Explain.

2. The broad notion of “victim blaming” can be associated with which bias(es) according to attribution theory?

3. If a person’s first and most immediate response to criticism is to be receptive and apologetic, would attribution theory anticipate this to be the most likely scenario? Explain.

4. Why might such high-level research questions of human cognition as those explored by CLT and attribution theory be difficult to assess from the standpoint of science?

Arete has been eliminated. They were the student who begrudgingly raised their hand to answer a question in class each time everyone else was too scared or bored to try.

Night 5 is over.

Marluxion has been killed. He was the first student in the door and the last student out, but somehow still always sleeping.


Vanilla town


Day 6 begins. You have 48 hours to vote. THERE IS NO HAMMER. Poll will be up momentarily.

Day 5 has ended.

Syn has been eliminated. He was three child prodigies stacked on top of one another in a trench coat.

Night 4 has ended.

Amy has been killed. She was the overachieving student who replies to quiz questions on Discord by uploading an external Word document.


Day 5 is underway. You have 48 hours to place your votes.*

*I will open the option to shorten day phases to 24 hours from this point forward. You may NOT discuss this in the game thread in any capacity. PM me here or on Discord with your preference: 24 or 48 hours. I will only change the cycles if it is unanimous and every single player provides an answer. I will need answers from everyone within the next 8 hours (by 2:00 AM EDT) or no change will occur.

Also I updated post caps and some seem weird. It's possible but not certain I boned the math in a previous phase. If so forgive me. Nobody's in trouble. I might be fine anyway.

1. Suppose the following pair of choices:

A. You may win $300 with a probability of 40%, otherwise losing $100 with a probability of 60%.
B. You may win $500 with a probability of 25%, otherwise losing $50 with a probability of 75%.

C. You may win $600 with a probability of 40%, otherwise losing $200 with a probability of 60%.
D. You may win $1,000 with a probability of 25%, otherwise losing $100 with a probability of 75%.

Suppose a person is presented with the first set of options and chooses (A). What would expected utility theory predict he or she would choose among the second set of options?

2. Is expected utility theory normative or descriptive?

3. Is prospect theory normative or descriptive?

4. Suppose you are playing in a Mafia game and aligned with the town. A player you have never previously played with or spectated suggests it would be "-EV" to vote for their pet town read otherwise contained within a general/consensus process of elimination pool because, per their claims, "they're really good at making reads". Suppose you believe this player to be aligned with the town. Is it wise to trust this player's grasp of probability and expected value? Please justify.

Day 4 has ended. dyachei has been eliminated. They were the student that showed up for half of syllabus day and two of three exams, failed, and tanked the instructor evaluation.


Night 4 is underway. You have 24 hours to get any actions to me.

Unit 2 answer key


Unit 3 answer key

Night 3 has ended.

sunbae has been killed. They were the student in the back of the room that shakes their head derisively when the smartass up front wants to try to correct the instructor:


Day 4 is underway. You have 48 hours to vote for someone.

Pop quiz

1. Write a rule that, as efficiently as possible, describes the category of objects above the center line but not the category of objects below the center line.



2. Which of the following objects, X or Y, would an observer be more likely to classify to Category A according to prototype theory?



3. Some evidence suggests that humans have the capacity for "one-shot learning"; that is, we seem to be able to effectively obtain new concepts with only a single exposure to a new object or category in the environment and no prior experience. Which of the three primary representation paradigms, rules, prototypes, or examplars, would be the least effective for accounting for this phenomenon?

4. Refer again to the image for question #1. What are two pairs of objects (each pair featuring any one object above and one one below the line) that can have their positions switched to create a new category above the line for which a comprehensive two-dimensional rule can be provided? To clarify, this means the new category can be accounted for in its entirety by only referring to two of the dimensions defining the category while the other dimension(s) are ignored.

Vulgard eliminated

Mafia 2-shot role blocker

Night 3 will last 24 hours. I will be as quick as I can about the lecture stuff. Thanks for patience.

THREAD LOCKED

Just posting for my own reference.

Unit 1 Answer key


The underlined answers reflect what I would call the "best" responses. However, sometimes perceptual cues and principles aren't so clear cut and are subject to interpretation. Students may still be able to justify alternatives like those seen above, and that's beautiful learning. Players are free to discuss the quiz and their responses as they desire, but please do not discuss host communications pertaining to the quiz (or anything). Future quizzes may be a bit tougher.


Night 1 has ended.

Hally has been eliminated. They were:


KZA has been eliminated. He was:


Day 2 is underway. You have 48 hours to place your votes. Also note that a screenshot of the Day 1 final poll has been added to the thread's first post. I will update everyone's post caps momentarily.

THE LECTURE IS MUCH LONGER THAN I INTENDED. YOU DON'T HAVE TO WATCH IT ALL IF YOU DON'T WANT. SKIP AROUND. OR WATCH IT ALL. EEK. I WILL BE SHORTER IN FUTURE LECTURES.

POP QUIZ

1. A person viewing this image describes the M&Ms in terms of their rows. Which Gestalt principle suggests this should be expected?



2. Try to imagine the Gestalt principles for auditory stimuli instead of visual stimuli. Think of the sounds of two separate police sirens as cruisers drive by on the road. You as the observer are able to distinguish these simultaneous sounds as being two distinct sirens instead of as one incomprehensible, disjointed wall of noise. Which Gestalt principle could apply here? They don’t have to be visual in nature necessarily.


3. If David Navon were to present the following stimuli to separate experiment participants (one the top stimulus and the other the bottom) and asked them to report the letter they see at the local level, which would be most likely to respond faster?




4. Per the lecture video, indicate the depth cue(s) that you feel play the most significant roles in your interpretation of depth in each image #s 1-4. For the first image, please indicate at least two. If you provide an answer unaligned with mine, I may ask for a justification.