{"id":27701,"date":"2013-09-20T01:04:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T01:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=27701"},"modified":"2013-09-20T01:26:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T01:26:03","slug":"most-intriguing-game-theoretic-comment-of-the-year-thus-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=27701","title":{"rendered":"Most intriguing game-theoretic comment of the year thus far"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — at the intersection of zero-sum and non-zero sum games ]
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And the hands-down winner is — opening today’s Washington Post<\/em> to the op-ed page — President Hassan Rouhani<\/strong> of Iran, who says:<\/p>\n

The world has changed. International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously.<\/em> Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think he’s right, though I’ll leave the question of whether he means it TBD — but if he does, that’s a.. that’s a.. that’s a Major Game Changer<\/em> — and verra <\/em>interesting in any case:<\/p>\n

  • What’s the non-zero-sum<\/strong> strategy when there may be one or more zero-sum<\/strong> players in the game?<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

    **<\/p>\n

    For your further edification, here’s what a genuine<\/em> game-changer, in both literal and metaphoric sense of the phrase, looks like:
    \n.<\/p>\n

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    \n.<\/p>\n

    <\/a><\/p>\n

    The court is a tennis court, the game in play is revolutionary politics, the event is the Tennis Court Oath<\/a>, where the members of the National Assembly gathered to swear “not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established” — the drawing is by Jacques-Louis David<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [ by Charles Cameron — at the intersection of zero-sum and non-zero sum games ] . And the hands-down winner is — opening today’s Washington Post to the op-ed page — President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, who says: The world has changed. International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,385,526,102,475,87,52,653,529,93,179,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-history","category-charles-cameron","category-diplomacy","category-disinformation","category-foreign-policy","category-france","category-game-theory","category-games","category-iran","category-revolution","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27701"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27737,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27701\/revisions\/27737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}