When large groups of citizens were protesting the electoral fraud in the 2000 elections in Serbia, clever protesters who were jailed used this to spread their message on a personal level to the security forces. As a result, they were more lenient in future incidents than Big Bad Milosevic wanted them to be, and this eventually led to his overthrow. A brief summary: Yudkowsky is a member of an organization aiming to make any future AI we may build less of a Crapshoot , and when he told people this, one common reaction was, "Why not just lock the AI away where it couldn't do anything and only let it answer questions?" When he replied that the AI would convince its captors to remove the locks, they replied, "They couldn't convince me! " Sick of this exchange, he decided that he had better prove them wrong ... which he did by making them stake actual cash on them not letting Yudkowsky (who played the AI) out during a two-hour RP session in a private chatroom, and winning three times in a row.