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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.
By a feedback loop, do you mean a process whereby uses of violence are likely to provoke violent responses, making everybody less willing to compromise? If so, then I entirely agree that this is worth examining, and I wish I could figure out what I said that makes it seem like you think you are saying something I'd disagree with.
Ah, interesting. I was about to examine why I disagreed with you, but upon seeing your comment again, I realized I'm not disagreeing. I understand your comment and agree with it insofar as it is written, but there is much more to say about this than where your comment ends. It's not that I disagree with the content, but the implications that arise from it having been stated the way you stated it.
This chain is basically like this:
Unfortunately, I don't know how to proceed from here to actually steer the future towards optimal (maximum?) non-violence.