X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fpolitical-science-epigrams.md;h=4856e5fcbf102e1470c3a59333b47094d48d73d0;hp=387d4d01ab1655e8b789b9ad09e37681915ff7c7;hb=e51f1a2d5914912fbc729d76d6fc623770a662bb;hpb=2494eafbbf91cc28b687c6dcf7e05ded0e6708fc diff --git a/content/drafts/political-science-epigrams.md b/content/drafts/political-science-epigrams.md index 387d4d0..4856e5f 100644 --- a/content/drafts/political-science-epigrams.md +++ b/content/drafts/political-science-epigrams.md @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ Title: Political Science Epigrams Date: 2020-01-01 Category: other -Tags: cathartic +Tags: cathartic, game theory Status: draft If your policy is, "We don't negotiate with terrorists, but we do appease bears", then from the perspective of a third party fighting a war against the bears, you look like a productive asset being farmed by the bears, and thus, a legitimate military target. -If your behavior is optimized to respond to political threats, but not to carefully-reasoned arguments from your friends, at some point your friends start to face a strong incentive to stop being your friends and start threatening you politically, because you've made it clear from your behavior that that's all you respond to. +If your behavior is optimized to respond to political threats, but not to small requests from your friends, at some point your friends start to face a strong incentive to stop being your friends and start threatening you politically, because you've made it clear from your behavior that that's all you respond to. If you were angry at an enemy (who used to be a friend), you might throw a rock at them. But if they didn't react to the last rock, you need to patiently build a bigger rock.