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See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox

I think in practice these are both only second-order effects, as the uncertainty of the future*, acting as a low-pass filter, tends to force a bit of Kantian Categorical Imperative on most actors.

Erich Honecker was taking a tour of East German institutions. Shown the mental institution, he said "increase their budget by 5 million marks". Shown the jail, he said "increase their budget by 10 million marks". Shown a few kindergardens, he said "increase their budget by a thousand marks".

— But, Chairman Honecker, why so little, when you gave so much to the others?

— Do I look like a Depp to you? What are the odds I'm going to wind up in a kindergarten?

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_91hU6LDjoA&t=94s

* compare ὄλβιον / εὐτυχέα.

[vinnyvichy]

Seems like it, though could be worth reading the paper to see what they might have missed (OR not missed but we did).. well I'm going to..

(Edit: do we still love the RS?

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.240358

Pps Re: lagniappe..

Don't worry it's just the adrenalin.. the terror will come to me soon, you can bet on it, I shall prostrate and undignify myself and fugget abt it all lol

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> It is not our claim that this will always happen, but the fact that it can is alarming enough.

Looking at the game in §2.1, I don't find their construction very "generic": small alterations along many axes remove the paradox.

(Upon a little reflection, insurance is the most likely place these kinds of payoffs would occur, and we already have reasonable tactics for dealing with that)

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[Postscript: if you find yourself constantly accompanied by Phobos and Deimos, you are either:

(a) Mars (either the god or the planet), in which case, carry on, or

(b) probably better served by discussion with a professional, rather than our motley crew of dabblers and blowhards here, or

(c) confusing me by making statements which read too much into, or

(d) something outside my impromptu case analysis?

That said, if you wanted the opinions of a geek pontificating on things they know little about, I have written here about the value I've found in staying out of the amygdala and staying in the cortex when in stressful situations.]