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Old September 6th 08, 06:28 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.transport
John Wright John Wright is offline
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Brimstone wrote:
Doug wrote:
On 5 Sep, 12:26, Tom Anderson wrote:
Science:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...riving-causes-...

I look forward to reading the paper, and to following development of
these ideas in the future.

The source says:

"Uncoordinated individuals in human society pursuing their personally
optimal strategies do not always achieve the social optimum, the most
beneficial state to the society as a whole. Instead, strategies form
Nash equilibria which are often socially suboptimal. Society,


Do you really understand what a Nash equilibrium is Duhg?

therefore, has to pay a price of anarchy for the lack of coordination
among its members."

Or in other words, selfish drivers do not serve the common good and
give anarchists a bad name. Well, we knew that already didn't we.


No Doug, people behave like that whether they are drivers or not. Anarchists
are by nature selfish.


True anarchism requires more empathy between people. Its people that are
selfish, that's why anarchism will never work, and also why Duhg isn't
one. He's too selfish.




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