dath ilan
Iarwain's setting. Originally created for an April Fool's Day Tumblr post, as a setting in which all coordination problems have been solved and people learn decision theory in school. The setting has evolved somewhat over time, and is now is Iarwain/Eliezer's medianverse. Some details of the setting in early posts/threads may not still hold for the current version of the setting.
dath ilan's name is intentionally lowercase.
Qualities of dath ilan include:
- Keepers deal with infohazards and such
- Wheat is not a major staple crop in the modern era
- History was screened off at great expense for reasons that are kept secret
- The ratio of sadists to masochists is extremely skewed, and so the entire concept of BDSM is considered an infohazard
- Note: in early dath ilan threads, before the evolution toward being Iarwain's medianverse, the concept of BDSM was simply unfamiliar to everyone
- Everyone gets taught economics, decision theory, etc
- Society makes heavy use of prediction markets and other systems to optimize things
NotableFor threads:non-glowfic posts on dath ilan, which do not include history being screened off, see dath ilan - LessWrong.
Threads containing characters from dath ilan:
- Authors: Iarwain, Alicorn
- Wiki page
- Note: this was an early dath ilan thread, setting details may have changed
- Note: This is also the only thread partially set inside dath ilan itself.
- Authors: Iarwain, lintamande
- Wiki page
Threads specifically containing Merrin, Swimmer963's character alted into dath ilan: