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#21

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Zoupa - November 09, 2025, 09:27:51 PM

lol why are Dems so terrible at politics.

#22

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Sophie Scholl - November 09, 2025, 09:21:26 PM

They did it. They fucking caved.

#23

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Admiral Yi - November 09, 2025, 07:55:06 PM

The NATO alliance isn't a sequential game though.  The Treaty is mutual and agreed to by all parties simultaneously, a process that repeats each enlargement.  Military budgets are set and change from year to year and the process of setting those budgets is entirely transparent as it moves through open legislatures.  Everyone can see and respond to what everyone else is doing and adjust accordingly.

My recollection  of freeriding and Stackleberg leaders is much simpler than all these objections indicate. It's basically freeriding occurs, Stackleberg leader makes up the difference to achieve optimality. Please educate me on my error.

#24

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Sheilbh - November 09, 2025, 07:45:02 PM

Yes.

I'm fully aware I have worked in media so have a particular animus against the platforms for destroying their advertising business only for them now to follow up wth mass theft of their IP and trying to get people onto AI search etc. I think it is a problem that the biggest industry in the last 25 years has been based on destroying the industries that produce good information (plus who can forget the fake number "pivot to video").

And I think their business model is based on a lie. They get treated, broadly, for regulatory purposes like they're just a telco or ISP - which are explicitly prohibited from reading the contents of communications - while their business model is based on analysing the content of those communications for the purposes of selling personalised advertising (now AI targeted and generated).

#25

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by The Minsky Moment - November 09, 2025, 07:19:23 PM

You're familiar with the concept of "Stackleberg leader," right? I resent  being  the Stackleberg leader.

The NATO alliance isn't a sequential game though.  The Treaty is mutual and agreed to by all parties simultaneously, a process that repeats each enlargement.  Military budgets are set and change from year to year and the process of setting those budgets is entirely transparent as it moves through open legislatures.  Everyone can see and respond to what everyone else is doing and adjust accordingly.

#26

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Admiral Yi - November 09, 2025, 07:15:33 PM

Yes but how is that applicable here, and what does it have to do with your fairness objection?

You're familiar with the concept of "Stackleberg leader," right? I resent  being  the Stackleberg leader.

Goddamn space  bar is sticking.

#27

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by The Minsky Moment - November 09, 2025, 07:11:02 PM

Yet when I pointed out that NATO behavior is rational from a cost-benefit perspective, your objection was based on fairness.

Game theory teaches individually rational choices can lead to societally suboptimal outcomes.

Yes but how is that applicable here, and what does it have to do with your fairness objection?

#28

Off the Record / Re: Gen X suck

Last post by Sheilbh - November 09, 2025, 06:16:31 PM

Yeah I fundamentlaly agree with Jake.

But I also think the asset ownership point is part of the generational angle in politics - especially with older people holding assets and young people not. Plus from a UK perspective spending on older people has almost doubled in the last 15 years while on working age people and children it's fallen by about a third (not helped by the fact that older people reliably vote).

#29

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Grey Fox - November 09, 2025, 06:07:26 PM

I like Yi's definition and label of the 2 positions. Altho, I don't think they are sides only styles.

#30

Off the Record / Re: Gen X suck

Last post by Iormlund - November 09, 2025, 05:59:29 PM

Generational warfare is just a distraction from the real issue, which is that the oligarchs have been waging class warfare and are winning.

At least in Spain generational wealth disparity is very much an issue. The two main contributing factors being pensions and real estate.