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2 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: coordination-arms-races

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Coordination arms race

Jiang's game-theory problem in which visible collaboration forces rivals to collaborate too, making secrecy essential.

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Taboo Is The River

2025-08-29, day precision · Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs

Transcript

"win games okay it's a very general thing so let's do a thought experiment and just say there's about a million people in the..."

Taboo Is The River

2025-08-29, day precision · Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs

Transcript

"forces these five to work together okay so if you are the first to work together you're gets you get screwed in the process..."

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Taboo Is The River

2025-08-29, day precision · glossary

Reading

The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.

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