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Brian_Tomasik comments on Open Thread, May 19 - 25, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 May 2014 07:35:34AM 5 points [-]

International politics is zero-sum once you've already reached the Pareto frontier and can only move along it, but if forecasting is sufficiently bad you might not even be close to the Pareto frontier.

Comment author: Brian_Tomasik 22 May 2014 10:35:44AM 2 points [-]

Right. A lot of politics is not zero-sum. Reduced uncertainty and better information may enable compromises that before had seemed too risky. Forecasting could help identify which compromises would work and which wouldn't. Etc.