{"id":2462,"date":"2002-05-15T17:12:02","date_gmt":"2002-05-15T17:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2002-05-15T17:12:02","modified_gmt":"2002-05-15T17:12:02","slug":"slates-article-on-game-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2462","title":{"rendered":"Slate&#039;s article on game theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/?id=2065830\">Slate&#8217;s article on game theory in the Middle East<\/a> is pretty good, but I believe Wright underestimates the power of his option #1 (irrational hatred). War is not an auction, and when it has been run as one &#8212; most famously in Vietnam by Johnson, Nixon and their hardy band of &#8220;incrementalists&#8221; &#8212; its managers manage to kill more while accomplishing less.<br \/>\nThis is a 19th century, Viennese-opera conception of war. I&#8217;d suggest going back to Thucydides to see what tribal warfare is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate&#8217;s article on game theory in the Middle East is pretty good, but I believe Wright underestimates the power of his option #1 (irrational hatred). War is not an auction, and when it has been run as one &#8212; most famously in Vietnam by Johnson, Nixon and their hardy band of &#8220;incrementalists&#8221; &#8212; its managers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}