#rationality #game-theory #metaphysical # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Changelog ```dataview TABLE WITHOUT ID file.mtime AS "Last Modified" FROM [[#]] SORT file.mtime DESC LIMIT 3 ``` # Related - [[Anger is a negative sum game]] - [[War is a negative sum game]] - [[Opacity versus transparency]] - [[Extreme-radical-honesty.transparency]] # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # Gossiping is a negative sum game When you trash talk someone in his back, what happens? You use your [[Brain-computing-time]] for unproductive [[Entropy]] and you (try) to reduce the [[Status game|status]] of the target. ## Pros - Anti-model: train your [[The Map is not the Territory|map of the territory]] with a negative label - run [[Brain back-propagation]] to be further away from it ## Cons - Waste [[Brain-computing-time]] - [[Competition is for losers]] - focus on yourself instead is more productive? ## Bridgewater [[Culture]] - As soon as you start talking in the back of someone, you have to go face them and tell them what you're saying now # External links TODO: Elephant in the brain book - argue gossiping is useful to spread hidden truth ---