huh. something small but unexpected happened and it threw me off my rhythm. the whole day is ruined now. its gonna take me 3-5 business days to recover
one thing about orpheus and eurydice is you guys are all like “i’m different i wouldnt turn to look at her” because you are all familiar with the story of orpheus and eurydice. but orpheus wasnt familiar with the story because he was in it lol.
“i wouldn’t look back bc logically if she’s not there it wouldnt help to look and if she is there looking back would cause me to lose her” cool so has love never made you stupid and insane
another thing thats interesting is i think most people assume its a walk of reasonably short length that you have to resist looking back. but we dont know how long that walk was. its out of the underworld, time could work very differently. could be days. could be months. could you walk for months without looking back to see if your love is okay? i dont think you could
exactly. like oh you’re not going to look back? have you never lost a love? there is so much looking back.
All three choices are symmetric, there’s no mathematically optimal strategy, it just comes down to predicting what most people will pick. Well, I’ve heard that most people pick rock, because that feels the strongest, there have been studies on this. But, I bet most other people on here have heard that too, so they’ll be picking paper. But! I bet most other people will also reason this far, and deduce that everyone will pick paper, so they’ll be picking scissors. On any other website, I think people would just stop at paper, but on tumblr I think you’re all smart enough to reason all the way to scissors. Of course, anyone else who has reasoned this far will deduce that the best choice is rock. However, even on tumblr I think most people are not clever enough to do that. So I’ll take the bet that I’ve reasoned exactly one step farther than the majority and go with rock.
