someone should try this and report back
Dec. 7th, 2010 11:11 pmI had a dream where we were playing Truth or Dare, only instead of doing it out loud, it was like Telephone Oracle: you wrote a question at the top of your paper, and handed it to the next person, who wrote their answer, and so on. In the dream you just had to come up with a question that could plausibly be answered that way, but I think it might be even more interesting if you had to come up with a question for which that answer was true for you. (How long would it take for all the papers to converge on repetitions of "What is something you'd never want to do?") Maybe you could also do some super-complicated thing in which you handed your paper to a different person each time, so you weren't always directing your questions at the same person - I bet if you implemented it as an irc bot you could have the software do that.