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Zero sum game is a mathematical abstraction. It is dangerous and ignorant to assume anything in real world is like that. There may be only _some_ niches and _

Zero sum game is a mathematical abstraction. It is dangerous and ignorant to assume anything in real world is like that. There may be only _some_ niches and _some_ specific problems, systems that are well described by this model. But that’s it. Unfortunately ideas like that are very sticky because they look beautiful and simple and average joe (like average journalist out there) equals beauty or simplicity with truth, and truth with real world.

keepamovin 3y ago
> Zero sum game is a mathematical abstraction. It is dangerous and ignorant to assume anything in real world is like that. Are we assuming or asking a question? o_O it's also probably "dangerous and ignorant" (haha get over yourself hahaha!) to assume the poster is assuming the worst possible interpretation you can come up with so you can feel the smartest you can, while the need to do that is itself revealing and suggesting of some compensation motivation! hahaha! :) agree on the trap of elegant models providing a seductive over-simplification of the real world, but that doesn't mean elegant models are false: maxwell, supply/demand, maxflow, phi, et al. however poorly stated, your point about the deceptive seductiveness of elegant oversimplifications is well taken. one must retain nuance, a quality your comment is perhaps abundantly lacking in, despite pointing out! :) hahaha but well taken! :)
- aristofun 3y ago
  Quality of my comment is awesome despite being slightly off of original question, chatgpt. And you are not to judge it anyway. Because it addresses the most probable root cause of such a silly question (wtf the sum game has with karma to begin with?) rather than giving direct answer to a meaningless question. In other words my comment is an elaborate and polite version of “this silly question can’t be answered for real”
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keepamovin 3y ago

> Zero sum game is a mathematical abstraction. It is dangerous and ignorant to assume anything in real world is like that. Are we assuming or asking a question? o_O it's also probably "dangerous and ignorant" (haha get over yourself hahaha!) to assume the poster is assuming the worst possible interpretation you can come up with so you can feel the smartest you can, while the need to do that is itself revealing and suggesting of some compensation motivation! hahaha! :) agree on the trap of elegant models providing a seductive over-simplification of the real world, but that doesn't mean elegant models are false: maxwell, supply/demand, maxflow, phi, et al. however poorly stated, your point about the deceptive seductiveness of elegant oversimplifications is well taken. one must retain nuance, a quality your comment is perhaps abundantly lacking in, despite pointing out! :) hahaha but well taken! :)

aristofun 3y ago
Quality of my comment is awesome despite being slightly off of original question, chatgpt. And you are not to judge it anyway. Because it addresses the most probable root cause of such a silly question (wtf the sum game has with karma to begin with?) rather than giving direct answer to a meaningless question. In other words my comment is an elaborate and polite version of “this silly question can’t be answered for real”
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