It appears to be typical cold war reasoning, nothing new. Was MAD rational? Perhaps not in the idealized world of abstraction, but many real world situations rely on both sides maintaining a feeling of control by threatening each other.
Maybe there is more to the Parfit case? It seems very easy to model and to involve typical day-to-day types of threat assessment.
It appears to be typical cold war reasoning, nothing new. Was MAD rational? Perhaps not in the idealized world of abstraction, but many real world situations rely on both sides maintaining a feeling of control by threatening each other.
Maybe there is more to the Parfit case? It seems very easy to model and to involve typical day-to-day types of threat assessment.