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Re:What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?... by core-questions on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @02:05AM (#22800715)
> "zero sum" is a hateful philosophy. It means I'd kill your children because if that's terrible for you it must be oppositely great for me

If you managed to simplify the equation down to "kill their children or die yourself" through some desert-island scenario, then yeah, sure. Normally problems involve more variables than this.

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Re:What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?... by neilshah29 on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @07:01AM (#22802110)
Zero sum means there is only one apple, and either your kid gets it or mine does. Not everything is zero sum.
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Re:What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?... by __s on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @07:14AM (#22802166)
Not only that, but it means the apple can't be destroyed. Zero sum excludes both win-win & lose-lose. There's no concept of waste
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