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Re:Robert's Rules of Order (1876) by lliamander on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:30PM (#23708093)
> I was also in a "consensus-based" meeting with a couple dozen people. It was dominated by one person who just kept insisting on getting their way, until everybody else got tired and "agreed."

Sounds like a manifestation of Nassim Taleb's "Dictatorship of the Small [Intransigent] Minority"[1]

[1]https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

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Re:Robert's Rules of Order (1876) by 082349872349872 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:33AM (#23711164)
A game-theoretic problem with positive sum games (as opposed to zero sum) is that apart from obvious focal points, there's no objective way to split the positivity of the payoff.

I've been brought up to "always leave something on the table", but I understand that other societies hold the opposite.

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