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In the game Taboo (by Hasbro), the objective is for a player to have their partner guess a word written on a card, without using that word or five ad…
x Taboo Your Words — LessWrong Connecting Words to Reality Rationalist Taboo Techniques Philosophy of Language Conversation (topic) Disagreement World Modeling Frontpage 325 Taboo Your Words by Eliezer Yudkowsky 15th Feb 2008 4 min read 135 325 In the game Taboo (by Hasbro), the objective is for a player to have their partner guess a word written on a card, without using that word or five additional words listed on the card. For example, you might have to get your partner to say "baseball" without using the words "sport", "bat", "hit", "pitch", "base" or of course "baseball". As soon as I see
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