Certain games have the concept of face-down cards.
- I’ll lay it all out in advance.
- When the condition is met, turn it face up and activate its effect.
No one but the parties involved know what is being withheld.
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For the parties concerned, “down” is a definite past when they are down.
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Unknown future for all but the parties involved
- there are things we can learn from what we see
- It’s a known past to the party who lies down, so their behavior changes based on it.
- ‘For some reason, you’ve suddenly started investing in the English language.’
- I see what you mean.
- future that has already happened
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secret Degree to which
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It’s a game face-down card, and it’s generally a complete secret.
- Only the person who got down knows.
- Other players don’t know until it’s opened.
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Not so with the get-down cards of the real world.
- That’s what I was wondering about when I wrote “the parties” instead of “the person.”
- When a face-down card is set, “face-down card is set” becomes confirmed past.
- This confirmed past can be used for actions
- concrete example
- Manuscript not available for publication until 8/15 2023-08-15 ChatGPT.
- Not placed in public Scrapbox, but shared with 5 community locations at this time.
- In two of them, useful reactions were triggered.
- As for this one, it will be triggered once the triggering condition of 8/15 is met, and then after the fact, “that’s it?
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