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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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My RPG ideal would be to have a group that can support “West Marches”-style play: that’s a persistent sandbox campaign where players take responsibility for booking sessions with the DM. The idea is to have different groups playing in the same world, and a competitive spirit is supposed to encourage them to play on a regular basis. The DM has some advance notice of where they want to go, so they know what to prep.

Like, “Hey, DM, we’d like to play Wednesday, and we want to go to that mysterious tower we saw in the north woods. We’ve got to get there before Jamie’s group does, and I think they’re gonna attempt it next Saturday. Let’s make sure all they find is some empty chests!”

(The original West Marches game was 3e, but the ’70s–’90s versions of D&D lend themselves well to this style of play, and it’s not terribly far off from the original playstyle.)

Combined with the trick of having powerful NPCs and factions under the control of outside parties, you could generate a cool collective world with a lot going on. It just takes a big circle of people to participate.

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unicorncontinuity asked:

Do you ever feel shy?

Sure! Especially around new people/strangers. It takes time to figure out where I stand with people, what their values are, what kind of vibe I get from them, and so on. I do believe it’s intrinsically good to give others a presumption of trust, and that getting to know others always requires giving them a chance to know me too, so I try not to let it hold me back in social settings.

What do you think? What makes you ask? And how about you, do you think of yourself as shy?

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Kirzner’s summary of the market process, toward the end of chapter 3:

The market process tends to present market participants with alternatives that approximate those opportunities they would choose if they possessed all the relevant information. The market process achieves this without making it necessary for market participants to learn all this detailed information. Instead, the market reveals any lack of coordination resulting from ignorance by market participants of potentially available opportunities through the emergence of price discrepancies. Where this kind of ignorance persists, the opportunity exists for the first discoverers of the price discrepancy to step in and win profits. In doing this they wipe out the price discrepancy itself, and thus remove the lack of coordination resulting from the limited market knowledge of market participants. (Market Theory and the Price System, 45.)

Kirzner emphasizes that, in a market system, the “quest” for profits completely subsumes and substitutes for the effort of economic agents to coordinate better. In a market system as such, where producers bear their own costs and their only income comes from voluntary exchange with consumers of their product, entrepreneurs can only earn profit by discovering and removing inefficiencies, which are, fundamentally, nothing more nor less than contradictions in the expectations of economic agents. (That’s dialectic, baby.)

At this point in the text, Kirzner doesn’t make another point that could also be made here. The market constrains its participants, more or less, to opportunities they would choose if they possessed all the relevant information. But, by assumption, they don’t, because the market accomplishes this without actually communicating all necessary information directly to everyone (something we can recognize is completely impossible). This means that the opportunities open to market participants will never appear ideal to them. It’s only in light of a broader theory, looking at the bigger picture, that we can say the market’s decisions approximate what is socially optimal, all things considered. From any individual’s limited point of view, it will always involve an element of frustration, as they are asked to accept trade-offs that are not as good as what they might imagine they should be offered instead.

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desperate-times asked:

how would you respond to this argument: "if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in"? i agree with what seems to be the underlying assumption (people want/need to be able to live in the places they work), but i know you're not a fan of minimum wages (and tbh your arguments in the past have been compelling).

I saw that post and decided to hold my tongue, but since you asked:

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