[ExI] future of warfare again, was: RE: Forking

[Stefano Vaj]

On 2 January 2012 21:45, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> I think it is a mistake to assume the actions of states are rational for
> the state as entity. States are composed by many players and groups, and
> what is rational for one might not be rational for the other - and when
> information is imperfectly distributed and incentives improper the behavior
> can get really ineffective or irrational. Just consider the gridlocks of US
> internal politics - solving them would be very useful for a planetary
> empire, but that doesn't help.
>

Absolutely. Only, when the resulting vector is rational for the state as an
entity, that given state's chances for success will improve. Otherwise, it
may well end up having a few probs. :-)

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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