Re: Game Theory and its Relevance to Cypherpunks

["James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>]

Llywarch Hen wrote:
> > > What Timothy May espouses is not the appearance of craziness but actual
> > > insanity itself.

James A. Donald wrote 
> > if you organize your nuclear forces so that any 
> > serious war is likely to escalate uncontrollably into the battle of 
> > armageddon, regardless of your intentions and desires, which is how 
> > the American government organized its nuclear forces in Europe, 
> > then you can pretty much guarantee you will not have to face a 
> > serious war.

At 03:09 PM 7/27/96 -0700, Jon Leonard wrote:
> This was, of course, the logic behind the alliances before World War I.
> It was obviously suicidal to start a war with any of the major powers,
> but it happened anyway.

Your history is false:  War was romantic and a big vote winner 
before World War I, and after World War I and before world war II 
the "intellectuals" were still big fans of war, just as they are 
still big fans of communism and socialism today, though World
War I was sufficient to kick sense into most normal people.

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