Doug wrote:
On 6 Sep, 19:28, John Wright wrote:
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?

Relevance of question? Exactly how would an understanding of Nash
equilibria or not influence an understanding of 'socially suboptimal'?

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.

Thank you, at last.

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

Anarchism has been shown to work on a small scale, Gohn, but the
problem is governments would never allow it to work on a much larger
scale as it would mean them forfeiting much of the power they have
over the people.

How would you deal with those people who only want to take advantage of
those who are happy to live in co-operation with everyone else?