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> Hi, I'm Non-Zero-Sum James, your companion on this exploration of win-win games [...] That sounds hopelessly naive. In a zero-sum game, you just min-max and
by eru 10mo ago
> Hi, I'm Non-Zero-Sum James, your companion on this exploration of win-win games [...]
That sounds hopelessly naive.
In a zero-sum game, you just min-max and that's it. No hard feelings.
Non-zero-sum games is where you pre-emptively nuke your neighbour.
See also https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tJQsxD34maYw2g5E4/thomas-c-schelling-s-strategy-of-conflict https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tJQsxD34maYw2g5E4/thomas-c-s...