🎲🩸 Politics is a bloodless war game that ends in zero-sum

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:00:00 +1100

Where this started

I worked through a short tour of the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma and Tit for Tat. These models show how repeated interaction rewards clarity and reciprocity. The pattern clicked immediately. I compressed that tour into a curated video page. I never used the model as proof; it just lit the social pattern for me.

Avoidance does not delete the fight

Politics (office politics too) trains people to keep faces intact. You soften feedback, bury tradeoffs, and route conflict through jokes, proxies, and timing. You feel kinder in the moment, but you are just delaying the bill.

KnowYourPolitics on behaviorengineering.ai

🎲🩸 Politics is a bloodless war game that ends in zero-sum

Where this started

Avoidance does not delete the fight