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Breetai
Nov 6, 2005

🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌
I've reread the entire series since November when I found out that Leviathan Falls finally had a release date, and looking at the last couple of books Duarte's reliance on using tit-for-tat really resonates as being an excellent indictment on how ultimately brutal, thuggish, stupid, and short-sighted the authoritarian/fascist mindset is.

Tit for tat is not the optimal solution. Tit-for-tat, if adopted by both sides of equal reasoning ability, causes a single defection to spiral into an endless cycle of nothing but defection, forever. Even world-renowned insufferable fuckwit Dick Dorkins knows that tit-for-two-tats is the solution for a game of repeated Prisoner's Dilemma. But submoronic Space Hitler decided that he would play the strategy that, if adopted by both sides, would lead to a constant defection strategy upon the first defection, and then deliberately defected.

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