Davos

Lisa & Ian Murray seamus at accessone.com
Thu Jan 27 16:32:17 PST 2000


Well it *was* supposed to be a *deliberate* echo of Dr. Johnson. And I do agree with him: Economic Growth is at least a positive sum game. War and Theology are clearly negative sum games--as the computer said in "War Games," "...interesting. The only way to win is not to play..."

Brad DeLong

The positive sum game claim that is stated above is formally undecidable [Albin, 1998; Daly, 1996]; as an empirical claim, what's the experiment that could perform or deliver the analogy to Eddington's confirmation of STR?

Dump the metaphors,

Ian



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