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"If changing strategies doesn't help, you can try to change the game. And if that's not possible, you can at least exercise some control about which games you choose to play. The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades. Seek out games where honesty is the dominant strategy. Then just be yourself."

"As Keynes observed, popularity is complicated, intractable, a recursive hall of mirrors; but beauty, in the eye of the beholder, is not."

On Mishima. Alberto Moravia. Norman Mailer. Marguerite Yourcenar.

On Mishima. Alberto Moravia. Norman Mailer. Marguerite Yourcenar.

In building network of people, the young explores more, the old exploits more. But the social preference is not about age as such -- they're about where people perceive themselves to be on the *interval* relevant to their decision. Meaning, if the old knows they live much longer, their preference becomes exploration as opposed to exploitation.