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Schelling has been on my to read list for a while - it's definitely an interesting subject (his model on segregation is really cool too). My problem with this
by oskarth 11y ago
Schelling has been on my to read list for a while - it's definitely an interesting subject (his model on segregation is really cool too).
My problem with this reasoning is that it seems to assume perfectly rational actors. For most problems you can do that in the long run, and it's generally a sane thing to assume, but in this case it's a ruin problem - one irrational person with imperfect/delayed information in a power position is enough.
- mikeash 11y agoIt also ignores the possibility of accidental nuclear war. Once ICBMs became common and warning times dropped to minutes, so much of the machinery of war had to be automatic (whether with actual machines, or with people given pre-baked orders and procedures) that setting it all off by accident was a serious possibility. Actually, is a serious possibility. That stuff is all still there.