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Re:Game Theory Take On - Washington’s Rogue Elephants by khafra on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @10:28AM (#2812264)
Whether they're sane by some objective standard is irrelevant to this understanding of the underlying game theory. If someone handcuffs himself to you on the edge of a cliff and starts dancing a jig, he has the upper hand in negotiations, for pretty much anything he wants to negotiate.
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Re:Game Theory Take On - Washington’s Rogue Elephants by ars on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @10:37AM (#2812306)
You are still stuck.

You think they are doing things just to annoy you, or for no reason at all.

They are choosing things because they think it's the best thing to do.

But you seem incapable of realizing that someone may actually have a different opinion about something. You seem to think that if they have a different opinion it must mean that they are not rational.

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