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Questions: Spite, Amendments, Nomic, Favor-Trading

So what’s the eldraeic take on spite? (In both the game theoretic and emotional senses.) In the former, that it’s pointless and self-defeating, inasmuch as it’s a negative-sum interaction. You lose, they lose. The best you can do in a spiteful interaction is come out relatively better

Jul 30, 2016

meta

Ethereum

I’ve been taking a moment or two today to futz with Ethereum, which is – as the site puts it – “a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts”. I mention this as something that might be of interest to Eldraeverse readers, since if you squint very, very hard when you look

Jun 14, 2016

worldbuilding

Questions: Holdouts and Self-Owning Property

While doing some reading on weapons from Bonnie Scotland, I came across this: “When the Highlander visited a house on his travels having deposited all his other weapons at the front door he did not divest himself of his concealed dagger, since in these far off days it was unsafe

May 25, 2016
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