Comment on [Link] Cognitive biases about violence as a negotiating tactic

Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:41:06 GMT

This is only codifying the bias in reason. If this is as severe a feedback loop as your reasoning suggests, then rational agents aware of this bias are all too necessary to start disabling the feedback loop. Nobody "wins" a war; one side just gets their demands met to some degree. That's a far cry from "winning" by any utility function that values human life much.

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