Cyan comments on Rationality Quotes: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 09 July 2010 09:03:01PM *  4 points [-]

I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.

-- Marine General James Mattis, to Iraqi leaders in every area his men served in, after sending his tanks and artillery home following the invasion of Iraq

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 July 2010 12:41:52PM 2 points [-]

Why is this a rationality quote?

Comment author: DSimon 10 July 2010 01:03:35PM 1 point [-]

My guess is that it's intended as an example of the Prisoner's Dilemma. Then again, nearly every morality-related situation is...

Comment author: Cyan 10 July 2010 03:59:38PM 1 point [-]

Tit-for-tat in the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma, specifically. It also poses the question: how good a strategy is it to combine humor with mortal threats?

Comment author: khafra 16 July 2010 04:02:45AM *  1 point [-]

It looked to me like a perfect, textbook example of a Schelling-type Threat; but maybe that's just because I'm reading The Strategy of Conflict.

Comment author: Cyan 16 July 2010 04:29:24AM 0 points [-]

Well spotted; I missed that.

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