#game-theory — Public Fediverse posts

Must Watch: U.S. Trade Rep Jamieson Greer -vs- Canadian State Controlled Media Rosemary Barton

This is a must watch interview.  Most Americans have no idea that Canadian media is controlled by the Canadian government; it’s what they call “cultural protection” where the rules and regulations of permissible speech are controlled by govt regulators and media are subsidized by govt.  The overall objective is to control information and censor viewpoints that might be averse to the interests of the Canadian govt. That’s why most Canadians have no concept of granular details on policy matters; they just don’t get the information.

In this interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), U.S Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is discussing the trade conflict and breakdown with Canada’s version of Baghdad Bob, Rosemary Barton.  I’m a little surprised the CBC would even entertain the discussion. However, as noted in the past few days there is increasing skepticism amid Canadians about who and what actually blew up the trade talks. Canadians are starting to show signs of suspicion; enter Ms. Barton on behalf of the Canadian government to try and control things.

USTR Jamieson Greer answers the questions in a most unfortunate manner; meaning, he told the truth.  Greer outlined exactly why he suspects the trade talks broke down, and it has nothing to do with economics or trade, it’s all politics on the Canadian side.  As Greer noted, there was no change to the trade agreement between President Trump and Prime Minister Carney’s lengthy phone call on Tuesday, and the Canadian decision to walk away on Friday.  Greer was being very diplomatic, but Barton started getting the vapors. WATCH:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/nUWpJ4-zapM?feature=oembed

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#mutualaid #gametheory #tgs Insane levels of jargon will make this illegible to many who already understand this in simple words, BUT this episode of TGS clearly (to me) sets out the challenge of building mutual aid (trust-based interdependence) and locally resilient communities within global "symbolic" systems where exploitation and psychopathy are winning strategies: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-great-simplification-with-nate-hagens/id1604218333?i=1000786048365

Scott Bessent was code-named “Sterling” in leaked emails between Jeffrey Epstein’s business partner and George Soros’s hedge fund.Nobody is talking about this while he tanks our economy, so I will — theleahfiles

In August 2024, a hacker group called Handala breached the personal email of Ehud Barak, the former Prime Minister of Israel. Barak was one of Epstein’s closest associates.

Those emails were published by Distributed Denial of Secrets. Journalists Jack Poulson and Harrison Berger spent months going through them. What they found was a direct financial relationship between Ehud Barak and Scott Bessent, the man who is now running the United States Treasury.

Here is what the emails show:

(1) August 2013. Barak emails a senior Soros Fund executive about “ichiban,” a Japanese word meaning “number one.” It is the code name for a currency trade being run by Bessent at Soros Fund. The trade that would make $3.5 billion crashing the yen.

(2) December 2013. Barak emails about meeting with Bessent directly. He refers to Bessent as “Sterling” in the correspondence.

(3) May 2014. Soros Fund executives discuss seeding Bessent’s new hedge fund, Key Square Capital, with $100 million to $450 million. Barak is included in these discussions.

(3) February 2015. Barak has a direct meeting with Bessent scheduled. The emails reference ongoing financial discussions between them.

(4) May 2015. Discussions continue about Bessent’s fund launch and Barak’s financial involvement.

This is the same Ehud Barak who was business partners with Jeffrey Epstein. The same Barak who ran an intelligence-linked venture capital fund. The same Barak who was connected to Carbyne and TOKA, surveillance tech companies Epstein helped fund and sell to the US Government.

And Scott Bessent, who had this financial relationship with Epstein’s business partner, who was code-named in Epstein-adjacent communications, is now the Treasury Secretary of the United States.

The Senate had a chance to investigate. Ron Wyden tried to expand the Epstein probe to include financial connections like these. Senate Republicans blocked it, and in March 2026 they killed the bill.

The leaked emails exist. The financial relationship exists. The meetings exist. The Senate investigation was blocked. A follow the money on these financials would be revealing, so the question is why??

This is the man running the U.S. Treasury. The man weakening your dollar. The man who just got the president’s family a bank charter for their private digital dollar. The man who yesterday threatened to cut countries off from the dollar system entirely.

And his financial history runs through Jeffrey Epstein’s business partner.

Nothing to see here folks….

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CIA Director John Ratcliffe Visited Moscow

CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unexpected visit to Moscow, Russia, today.

According to flight data and new media reporting Director Ratcliffe flew into Latvia and from Latvia into Russia on a C-17 military transport plane.

VIA CBS – CIA Director John Ratcliffe is in Moscow, Russia, for meetings, sources familiar with the situation told CBS News on Tuesday.

We shall not speculate too much on the purpose and intent of the visit; however, overall, the direction points to intelligence sharing or notification.

Recently the British announced they would be sharing “storm shadow missile” technology with Ukraine in order for Ukraine to build them for themselves.  The Storm Shadow (also known as SCALP-EG in France) is a Franco-British, long-range, air-launched cruise missile used for precision deep-strike attacks against high-value targets.  Essentially, the Storm Shadow missile is the U.K version of the Tomahawk cruise missile.

Ukraine would be building those missiles with money provided by the EU from the confiscated Russian sovereign wealth fund.  Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin likely doesn’t appreciate that very much.

According to Visegrad, “President Putin had a major event scheduled for today, with hundreds of people preparing for it. The event was canceled due to the visit of the CIA director, according to Kremlin pool journalists.”  CIA Director John Ratcliffe is now returning home from Moscow.

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The problem isn't that we're too selfish to fix the world. It's that we're all waiting for someone else to move first. Prisoner's dilemma, civilizational scale. By @daylightatheism

https://onlys.ky/the-future-is-a-prisoners-dilemma/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=evergreen

#Ethics #GameTheory #CollectiveAction #Humanism #Politics

Survival of the wittiest (not friendliest): The art and science behind human linguistic and cognitive evolution

Abstract

There are several previous findings, both theoretical and experimental, that have paved the way toward the view of human evolution as the “survival of the wittiest,” subject to sexual selection, offering better explanatory power than the “survival of the friendliest.” While research on language evolution has largely neglected the artistic dimension, the fitness in humans is correlated with linguistic eloquence, including humor. This is one of those cases where science can only explain a phenomenon by considering its artistic dimension, and in which linguistic creativity and genetics come into direct contact. My argument is that selection for quick-wittedness (using and combining words in a clever and funny way), specific to language and unique to humans, needs to be added to the complex picture of human evolution, relevant from the earliest stages of language/grammar. Wittiness is a trait that allows competition (by “outwitting” others) while at the same time favoring “friendliness” in that it provides an excellent platform for replacing physical aggression with verbal behavior and cognitive contest, the hallmarks of human nature. This proposal is based on a precise linguistic reconstruction of the earliest stages of grammar, providing linguistic detail (“living fossils”) necessary for hypothesis testing, including neuroimaging experiments.

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A good deal of reasoning about humans requires considering its artistic dimension. Birth-control has surely negated the evolutionary advantage of being the wittiest, as overall, intelligent couples have been most likely to use it. Where there is wittiness and artistry, there is also nastiness and ugliness. The importation of civilization-ending numbers of nasty invaders whose behavior is known to be ugly is an example happening before our eyes. While the nasty humans at the top, those in positions of controlling the invasion, may be clever, even witty, they are ugly people. In human societies sh*t all too often rises to the top. As for, considering the artistic dimension of things human, I would like to emphasize two topics which, to be understood, require that of us: 1) FIML and 2) the covert war the West has been subjected to for over 100 years and especially since the nominal end of WW2. That covert war has been extremely violent, almost invisible, gruesomely successful, nasty and ugly, and, as of today, seemingly unstoppable. ABN

Another forever D&D topic is sandbox vs railroad? I think railroad is the wrong word. I do not think anyone wants to be railroaded. Maybe freeform vs structured, but that will never get clicks!

A subtle subset of such discussions is the players are (probably) never going to be as invested in the world building a DM is. They are not as motivated to engage in abstract concepts like government, or trading, or game social constructs, or improving the world (fantasy) in some way.

I hypothesis that freeform (sandbox) play lends itself more to the players thinking of themselves as indestructible cowboys. Or maybe they know they could die, but nobody is going to hold them back or tell them what to do.

It is much less likely that the players are going to say, oh, this land is lawless, I am going to build a wood fort, and change the hearts and minds of the people to stand with me and tame this wilderness for the greater good of our kingdom. They are much more likely to say, who needs this kingdom telling us what to do.

#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #gametheory

Manifest Destiny, Middle East-style

It might work. Trump is reorganizing global energy distribution routes in a way that renders the Strait of Hormuz ‘just another body of water’ and no longer a critical chokepoint controlled by Iran and the City of London (through insurance rates and the fomenting of violence in the Middle East, which raises them). Iran appears to have overplayed a weak hand, only to lose even more power. ABN

Nicky Case always has great stuff (I first became aware of them for their "We Become What We Behold," which is an excellent critique of mass media), but I only just found out about this one today, which goes over societal trust and what exactly Game Theory has to say about it:

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#sociology #massmedia #bowlingalone #trust #society #gametheory #relationships

At the end of all of this effort is the EU/NATO goal of a fully operational war against Russia

No reasonable person in the EU wants this outcome, no ordinary citizen in the U.K wants war with Russia and only a tiny percentage of Americans would support it.

However, 80% of the British/EU political class and around 75% of the Washington DC political class would immediately welcome this outcome.

Europe is burning through their spending of the confiscated €300 billion Russian sovereign wealth fund. The money will be completely gone within a year as it is the funding mechanism for almost all Ukraine support.

When you think about this in very practical terms, this makes the EU war against Russia a foregone conclusion.

In my opinion, the decision to spend that confiscated Russian asset wealth is what changed in early June when Zelenskyy visited King Charles in London. What was once avoidable is now ultimately only a matter of time.

Unless someone is willing to step into the finance side and repay Russia, a western conflict with the Russian Federation to avoid the issue seems to be the overwhelming likelihood.

In the interim, Eastern Ukraine remains a meat grinder.

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Is there an issue with asymmetry in Nash Equilibrium that results in the mixed equilibrium with Doomsday Device M.A.D?

Nash stipulates that there must be no benefit to deviate from your strategy, but no negative corollary when there is no drawback from deviating from the other strategy #GameTheory

Kissinger Exposed: How Trump Dismantled 50 Years of British Mideast Policy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaK8etWekOk

Is Israel Planning to Assassinate President Trump?

“When you read Jewish law in many places, you might understand that gentiles can be killed freely without any problems.”

— Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, Radio Kol Hai (July 2011)

In January 2012, Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of a small weekly newspaper called the Atlanta Jewish Times, sparked considerable controversy when he penned an article titled ‘What Would You Do?’ in which he put forth three possible responses Israel might pursue if Iran were to acquire a nuclear weapon. The first two — pre-emptive strikes on Hezbollah and Hamas and disobeying the US Secretary of Defense to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities — failed to raise any eyebrows. Adler’s third suggestion, however, would result in his immediate resignation as editor and the subsequent sale of his newspaper:

“Three, give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies. Yes, you read “three” correctly. Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence. Think about it. If I have thought of this Tom Clancy-type scenario, don’t you think that this almost unfathomable idea has been discussed in Israel’s most inner circles?… You have got to believe, like I do, that all options are on the table.“

Almost immediately, the article became headline news around the country forcing major Jewish organizations like the ADL and AJC to feign indignation, and within a week the US Secret Service had launched an ‘investigation’ into the matter while a teary-eyed Adler appeared on the Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasting network’s cable TV show to disavow his column and explain that he actually held a favorable view of President Obama!

Adler’s straight-talk, shocking though it may seem to some, provides crucial insight into the mentality of God’s chosen people and the candor they often use when speaking amongst themselves. Killing a foreign or domestic head of state who presents a perceived obstacle to the preservation of fragile little Israel is not unknown to history, as any reader of Laurent Guyenot’s indispensable book The Unspoken Kennedy Truth or Ronen Bergman’s 2018 bestseller Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations can assure you.

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It only just now occurred to me that the gory public execution of Charlie Kirk was also meant to terrify Donald Trump, which it seems to have done very profoundly. Ofc, there are many other motives for having murdered Kirk. Recall that Netanyahu publicly presented Trump with an Israeli cell phone, which everyone with brains read as an ostentatious threat on Trump’s life. The topmost levels of world power are always Kill-Or-Be-Killed (KOBK), pure savagery, winner take all. Deep infiltration and apex parasitism are brutal KOBK strategies. This is precisely how the West has fallen and continues to fall. This is manifestly obvious in every single Western government there is, and it includes all of the West’s major institutions and many of its lesser ones, which are frequently used as training grounds for KOBK infiltrators. Consider the chutzpah of Netanyahu to have proposed shotgun marriage to USA’s military, and the timid acquiescence of US Congress to his power-move. ABN

Richard Carrier may have created a powerful model for morality.

#morality

#mathematics

#philosophy

#gametheory

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When Deduction Meets Observation

An Unexpected Convergence in Moral Philosophy

https://medium.com/scientists-free-from-religious/when-deduction-meets-observation-1e2b65da754b

Sharia law explained in Texas

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The speaker is reportedly a migrant from Iran at a town meeting on a proposed Islamic Center in McKinney, TX. The West is collapsing at warp speed due to its ignorance of other cultures and religions. All enemy infiltrators will lie to you. ABN

Secretary Bessent Outlines Reality of Capital Markets Making the Strait of Hormuz Irrelevant

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gets it.  When asked about the Strait of Hormuz, Bessent notes that yes, things will likely never return to the way they were before; however, there is a distinction that must be applied.

Even if Iran completely acquiesced to all of the most stringent terms and conditions requested by President Trump, they will never again recapture the position they held with the Strait of Hormuz as a chokepoint.

Capital markets respond to risk in the medium and long term; risks are always mitigated.  With the Strait now identified as a strategic risk, the emphasis will be on forever neutralizing that risk and avoiding the issue in the future.  As a consequence, Iran’s strongest point of leverage is disappearing now and will continue to disappear.  WATCH (prompted):

https://www.youtube.com/embed/P7eK_gguJzg?start=860&feature=oembed

As further explained by James Thorne on X: “By repeatedly signaling its willingness to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran hasn’t strengthened its hand, it has accelerated the market’s exit. Capital does not tolerate chokepoints; it routes around them.

Saudi Arabia is expanding its East-West pipeline. The UAE has already built out Fujairah as a bypass. Iraq is revisiting overland export corridors. Every marginal dollar now flows toward redundancy, not reliance. What was once a geopolitical lever is being engineered into irrelevance. Bessent gets it: markets don’t absorb coercion; they arbitrage it away.

Energy markets are not static, and they are not sentimental. The shale revolution already diluted OPEC’s grip. LNG has globalized gas. Now infrastructure is doing the same to maritime risk. Once these pipelines are built, they don’t get unbuilt. Volume shifts become permanent. Pricing power follows.

Tehran’s miscalculation is classic: overplay a scarce asset, and the world invests to make it abundant. The more Iran rattles Hormuz, the faster it erodes the very leverage it seeks to exploit.

In the end, this is not deterrence. Its substitution and substitution, once funded, is irreversible. Iran is underwriting its own marginalization.“

A 40-year generational problem is being resolved forever!

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Ah, the riveting saga of #BIP110, where Bitcoin's version of "War and Peace" unfolds in a thrilling game theory dance 💃. This tome promises to unravel the secrets of crypto-espionage and will surely fuel your #insomnia 💤. Spoiler alert: the author has no clue how it ends, but really wants you to think he does 🤷‍♂️.
https://www.simondixon.com/blog/bip-110-the-spam-war-and-the-battle-nobody-wants-to-name-where-i-stand-simon-dixon #Bitcoin #GameTheory #CryptoEspionage #Thriller #HackerNews #ngated

Public, Industrial
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Popular economics
Популярная экономика
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Econophysics and Behavioral
Поведенческая экономика, Поведінкова економіка
#Econophysics and #Behavioral
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Econometrics, Mathematical
Эконометрика, математическая экономика
#Econometrics
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Historical, International
История, международная экономика, Історія, міжнародна економіка,
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Game Theory, Теория игр, Теорія ігор
#Game Theory, #Теорияигр, #Теоріяігор
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Библиотека Поэта
Бібліотека Поета, Poet's Library
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Лев Толстой
Lev Tolstoy
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Русская литература XX-XXI
Russian Literature XX-XXI, Російська література XX-XXI
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Русская литература XVII-XVIII
Російська література XVII-XVIII, Russian Literature XVII-XVIII
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Русская литература XIX века
Russian literature of the 19th century, Російська література XIX століття
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Достоевский Фёдор
Достоєвський Федір, Dostoevsky Fyodor
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Древнеславянская литература
Old Slavonic literature, Давньослов'янська література
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Солженицын, Солженіцин, Solzhenitsyn
#Солженицын, #Солженіцин, #Solzhenitsyn
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Publishing series, science fiction, fantasy
Серийные издания, фантастика, фэнтези
Видавнича серія, фантастика, фентезі
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Theory of literature
Теорія літератури, Theory of literature
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Ukrainian literature, Украинская литература, Українська література
книги на украинском языке
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Poetry, Поэзия, Поезія
#Poetry, #Поэзия, #Поезія
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American literature (USA США)
Американская литература, Американська література
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World literature,
иностранная литература, мировая литература, іноземна література, світова література зарубежная литература
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Chinese literature
中國文學, китайская литература, китайська література
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German literature
немецкая литература, Німецька література, Deutsche Literatur на немецком
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Antique literature
Антична література, Античная литература
#Antique literature
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English literature
английская литература, англо-американская литература, англійська література
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Photo Art,
Фотоискусство, Фото Мистецтво, фотоарт
#Photo Art, #Фотоискусство
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Theater, театр
#Theater, #театр
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Russian art, русское искусство, російське мистецтво,
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Renaissance, Відродження, эпоха Возрождения, ренессанс
#Renaissance, #Відродження, #эпоха Возрождения, #ренессанс
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Poster, Плакат, афиша, постер
#Poster, #Плакат, #афиша, #постер
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Ornament, Орнамент, Ornáid
#Ornament, #Орнамент, #Ornáid
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Modern, Moderne, модерн,
#Modern, #Moderne, #модерн,
искусствоведение, авангард
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Oriental art,
східне мистецтво, Восточное искусство,
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Cinema, кино, кіно, киноискусство
#Cinema, #кино, #кіно, #киноискусство
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Graphics, Painting картины живопись
изобразительное искусство, Образотворче мистецтво art творчество арт art
#Graphics, #Painting #картины #живопись
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Architecture архитектура архітектура
#Architecture #архитектура #архітектура
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Probability,
теорія ймовірностей, теория вероятностей
#Probability,
#теоріяймовірностей, #теориявероятностей
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Number theory
Теория чисел, Теорія чисел
#Number theory
#Теориячисел, #Теоріячисел
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References, Collected works
Література, Зібрання праць,
Ссылки, Собрание сочинений
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Symmetry and groups
Симметрия и группы,
Симетрія і групи
#Symmetry
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Philosophy of mathematics
Філософія математики, Философия математики
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Mathematical physics
Математическая физика, Математична фізика
#Mathematical physics
#Математическаяфизика, #Математичнафізика
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Optimization and control
Оптимізація та контроль, Оптимизация и контроль
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Optimal control
Оптимальный контроль, Оптимальний контроль
#Optimal control
#Оптимальныйконтроль, #Оптимальнийконтроль
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Numerical methods
Чисельні методи, Численные методы
#Numerical methods
#Чисельніметоди, #Численныеметоды
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Lecture notes
Конспекты лекций, Конспект лекцiй
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Encyclopaediae, School-level
Енциклопедії, Шкільний рівень
Энциклопедии, школьный уровень
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Games, game theory
Ігри, теорія ігор
Игры, теория игр
#Games, #game theory
#Ігри, ₽теоріяігор
#Игры, #теорияигр
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Geometry and topology
Геометрия и топология
Геометрія і топологія
#Geometry and #topology
#Геометрия и #топология
#Геометрія і #топологія
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Biography, history
Биография, история
Біографія, історія
#Biography, #history
#Биография, #история
#Біографія, #історія
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Mams_ Proceedings AMS
Праці AMS, Труды АМС
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Algebra, Алгебра
#Algebra, #Алгебра
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Optical devices
Оптика, оптические устройства, технологии, инжинерия
#Optical devices

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Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned as US embassies issue stark alert over spiraling Iran war

Americans have been told to be ‘ready’ to flee ten Middle Eastern countries as the Iran war spirals, with President Trump warning: ‘We’ll be hitting them very hard.’ 

The US Embassy has urgently advised US citizens across the Middle East to ‘consider departing or be ready to depart if there is an escalation,’ just hours after Trump signaled fresh strikes on Iran could come as soon as this weekend. 

The warning now covers 10 countries: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Oman, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and, most recently, Egypt. 

‘US Embassies across the Middle East have issued security alerts today advising travelers to exercise heightened vigilance and be prepared for flight cancellations and airspace closures,’ the initial alert said.

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Trump warns migrant ‘catastrophe’ in Spain would look ‘small time’ if Dems regain power

President Trump warned the storming of a small Spanish enclave by tens of thousands of migrants would look “small time” compared to what happens in the US if voters pick open-border Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.

Speaking at Camp David Friday, the president called the sudden mass migration into Ceuta a “catastrophe,” and said the harrowing footage showing the lawlessness breaking out at the Moroccan border “looks like an invasion.”

No sooner had the migrants breached the border than some started bathing in city fountains and using city streets as their own personal toilets.

Some 60,000 Moroccan immigrants, many of them military-aged men, barged their way into Ceuta, a Spanish territory on the north African coast.ZUMAPRESS.com

“And that same thing is going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected, except worse. Much bigger, much easier to get into, despite the fact that we have built thousands of miles of wall, which I said we were going to do,” Trump told reporters.

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Dumbest country in the world

Plus they outbreed citizens and are paid to have children. This is asymmetric war being conducted by infiltrators and traitors. It is not something else. ABN

Was looking through 80s TSR Star Frontiers again. There are only 13 skills broken down into 3 categories.

In a previous conversation about homebrew D&D, I was talking about how there are only 3 classes/archetypes from a programming perspective, Fighter, Magic-user, Thief.

Code would have to be written for Combat, Skills, and Spells.

The other D&D classes would use that code.

Looking over the SF skill list, it also follows a 3 point approach that (somewhat) matches the previous discussion. But it is interesting how Tech Skills and Biosocial Skills could be Magic-user or Thief based, depending on perspective.

Military = Fighter = Combat
Technological = Magic-user = Spells
Biosocial = Thief = Skills

#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #gametheory #starfrontiers

I still find this result intriguing:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/AnOddityInTennis.html

#Maths #GameTheory

Follow the Money Toward WWIII — Russia’s $300 billion of confiscated assets make peace close to impossible

It has been said that all wars are “bankers wars,” however, against the modern era of inverted fascism where corporations tell the govt what policies take priority, the more accurate truism ‘is all wars being controlled by money’, not necessarily banks.

The European Commission has constructed a very special kind of proactive financing for Ukraine that doesn’t require them to give their own €uros to the historically corrupt country.  Partly because the EU doesn’t have their own money, and partly because everything the EU does in the sphere of finance is always a false construct, what the EU put together was a financial system based on sanctioned, confiscated (ie stolen) Russian sovereign wealth funds {citation}.

As part of the sanction regime, the EU and western NATO alliance seized roughly €250 billion, $300 billion USD, in Russian sovereign wealth assets.  As long as the USA was financing the Ukraine government and war effort, those funds sat on the sidelines undiscussed.  However, once the USA stopped writing checks to Ukraine an alternate finance system was needed.

What the EU (Ursula von der Leyen) put together was a finance package using the confiscated $300 billion in the Russian sovereign wealth fund as collateral for loans to Ukraine.  The EU would send the money to Ukraine as a loan that did not have a payback mechanism. Instead, the thinking goes that when the negotiations for a ceasefire take place, Russia would be forced to give up the confiscated $300 billion as part of a reparations package to Ukraine.

Ukraine doesn’t have to pay back the loans because Russia will be forced to give up their sovereign wealth fund, and those funds will repay the loans.  That’s the way the EU financing of Ukraine is set up. {SOURCE}  The EU isn’t giving Ukraine EU money; the EU is giving Ukraine the Russian wealth fund money.

Now, immediately you can see a few problems.

♦ PROBLEM 1 – What happens if Russia demands the return of their $300 billion as one of their baseline terms for a peace deal?  If the confiscated money is given back to Russia, the EU and Ukraine are on the hook for the $300 billion they would have spent.

♦ PROBLEM 2 – With #1 in mind, there is now an incentive to never reach a peace agreement or ceasefire; at least never reach a solution that would consider the return of the $300 billion.  Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin has previously said the stolen money belongs to the Russian people and must be returned; he will never accept the theft.

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There is more than just this very important factor. It strongly appears that the Iran War is spreading and merging with the Ukraine War, which indicates top Western elites are not giving up on destroying Russia, and probably Europe as well. Chaos always favors the strongest players, who may overestimate their positions. Only time will tell. I dislike predictions but do like seeing the signs of things that may come to be and assessing them based on what seems probable. WW3 is a constantly increasing possibility and has been on a front burner since Gaza, and now Iran. If USA agrees to marry Israel’s IDF, that will mean WW3 will follow with much greater probability. Notice the many ties between China and Israel, as both deeply infiltrate USA and Europe with many similar aims. I can imagine an Israeli-Chinese plot to goad Europe and USA into war with Russia, while China and Israel wait on the sidelines to reap the spoils. China will gain territory from and power over a war-torn Russia, while Israel will increase its control over USA and Europe, and probably take full control of Ukraine, if not more. ABN