[ExI] [Soc]Complex Adaptive Systems - Tending Always to 50/50 split)
Stefano Vaj
stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 14:05:46 UTC 2008
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:13 PM, John Grigg
<possiblepaths2050 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you saying international politics is a zero sum game? LOL!
No, sometimes the net risult is minus than zero. :-)
More seriously, one cannot really expect each and every international
game to allow for win-win solutions, can one?
> And that's just how I like it! ; ) But I am right.
So sayeth the Ayatollah... :-)
Amen.
> Russia used classic political gamesmanship ("we must protect our bullied
> friends there") as an excuse to invade. Politics in the region tends to be
> an ugly bloodsport.
Not as in the rest of the world, you mean? :-)
>> In more general terms, I think most people, and transhumanists
>> especially, are probably better off in a multipolar world than in a
>> unipolar one, was it just for the competitive dynamics that the first
>> still seems able to maintain better than the second.
>
> Yes, I heartily agree due to the fact that technological competition between
> nations and political blocs creates so much needed innovation. But if
> things overheat we will see conflict and war vastly worse than what two
> world wars delivered.
Why, wouldn't it be nice to have only the good of a cold war without
the bad and the risks of it? :-)
Stefano Vaj
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