better metaphor
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June 27th, 2021
- always in search of a better metaphor
January 28th, 2021
- I hate the word positive-sum... we need a better metaphor - not all positive-sum outcomes are win-wins \ omniwin
- positively-correlated points at part of the better thing
- I think I have tweeted about this
- simple analogy with arbitrary units of value:
- if you put in 5 units, and I put in 5 units, and 5 extra units get generated (total = 15), and then I take 12 units and you take 3, this was positive sum because Δsum=+5, but you LOST (-2) and I WON (+7)
- but this is not positively correlated because the signs are different on +2
- this is sort of a standard exploitative capitalist scene
- all win-win positively-correlated situations are positive sum, because with zero or negative sum games
- lose-lose is also positively correlated!
- in a negative sum game both people *can* lose
- (I put in 5, you put in 5, 8 are destroyed, we're each left with 1)
- omniwin relates very closely to post-compromise