On 11/7/19 7:30 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > PS. I am reminded of Nick's (with Stephen/Owen/et-al support) MOTH (my way > or the highway) strategy in the iterated prisoner's dilemma. It is perhaps > too simplified for application in the context of our national elections, but > I suspect that the Left may be moving toward that strategy which beats the > chronic defector strategy that the Right seems to prefer.
I finally found it! Sheesh my memory is garbage. Anyway, I'm not so much reminded of MOTH as I am of the following, which is why I mentioned "depth" of the judiciousness in the use of violence. But I confess that I don't remember the gist of MOTH. Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary opponent https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/05/16/1206569109.abstract Extortion and cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma https://www.pnas.org/content/109/26/10134 -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
