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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 18:02:10 JST Charlie Stross

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   • EH Lupton

   @pretensesoup Sounds like somebody has never heard of positive-sum interactions (in game theory)? Worse: by implication they believe only zero-sum or negative-sum interactions are possible.

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     EH Lupton (pretensesoup@romancelandia.club)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 18:02:11 JST EH Lupton

     Narrator of this book is asked if a deed can be good if it also benefits the do-er. Pretty weak sauce as questions go, but his answer is the worst. First he calls it a "Kobiyashi Maru question" (an unwinnable scenario in Star Trek; at best it's like...a question about which one could have an opinion), and then goes on to use the phrase "one- sided quid pro quo," which is nonsense. I just...do you even philosophy, bruh?