Stefan, "What a f...ing winp, who needs 4 armed guards just to walk around. You gotta be the biggest wimp there is".
"Hey someone, throw him a knife" "Only wimps, women and sissies need weapons. I wanna grind your face into the concrete with my bare hands". With that, he folded up his knife and put it into his pocket. I then spit in his face and bitchslapped him as hard as I could. He lost it and came at me like a cat with fingernails extended. Then for maybe a minute I was bullfighting, stepping aside as I tagged him each time he made successive passes. I had relaxed as much as possible to conserve my energy. Then he settled down and decided to really fight, but he had already dumped and blown his adrenaline. After a few punches that confirmed his exhaustion, I unleashed a barrage of 2nd knuckle punches to his face. He blocked with his fists, but 2nd knuckles go easily between fists, so he opened his hands. I probably broke some small bones in his hands He then turned away from me, swinging uselessly around his sides at me. Now, his gang was laughing and they came running to rescue him. Hiding my own exhaustion, I looked at the gang and asked "Does anyone else wanna play?" but I got no answer, so I walked away I had won mostly because my opponent was pursuing two other goals besides beating me - impressing his gang and satisfying his anger, while my only goal was to stay alive. I made it look like I just played with him, then finished him off, though that was NOT how I saw it. I hid my martial arts skills by converting from fist to 2nd knuckle at the last instant before contacts - which fortunately no one noticed. The gang didn't then attack me because it looked like I had beaten their leader 100% fair and square, though I had "cheated" on plain sight. Yes, my ears were ringing, I could taste a bit of my own blood, I was a bit dizzy, etc., but this had worked out perfectly. Steve On Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 4:44 AM Stefan Reich via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > > I once had a related incident, where in high-school I was accosted by a > gang of 5 teenage switch-blade-carrying delinquents > > THAT happened to you? OMG. Our schools are bad too, but not like that I > guess. Kudos for solving this situation. Are you going to tell us how you > did it? > > On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 08:34, Steve Richfield <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I am helping a friend get ready for a million-dollar mediation - and we >> are wrestling with a complex issue that appears to be mathematical in >> nature, akin to the Prisoner's Dilemma, and possibly a missing piece of AGI. >> >> The situation is complicated, but in a way like Israel or Ireland where >> two groups think they own the same thing, so they get together to discuss >> how this might be unfairly divided between them. My group sees the other as >> robbers who have acted fraudulently to secure their position, while the >> other group has papers in place giving them effective title - but with a >> 20-year wait to get anything. The mediation is how to divide up the money >> now, with some dangerous but uncertain leverage to ruin the robbers in >> court if they don't act reasonably. >> >> This seems to all boil down to “robber’s rules”. Why don’t robbers >> routinely kill their victims and strip them of their valuables? This is >> addressed in *Adventures in Arabia* by William Seabrook. There are >> several reasons – that all seem to sort of apply here: >> 1. Other robbers will see killers as being without principle, and so >> won’t trust them to fairly divide the booty. Therefore, it is more >> profitable to first kill the prospective killer – instead of the victim. >> 2. Blood is SO messy – when simply the threat of death can probably >> accomplish the same thing. >> 3. If you don’t leave your victim with SOMETHING he might perish, and >> his death would be blamed on you. >> 4. If you are too greedy, others will hear about it and mount a posse >> to come after you. >> 5. If he has powerful friends, this could result in your own death. >> >> In a real-life incident described in his book, the author was accosted >> out in the middle of the dessert by a band of bandits. He produced a note >> written in Arabic he had been given to address such situations. The robbers >> carefully read the note – and sent him on his way without robbing him. How >> could any words possibly have turned such a situation around? His next goal >> was to find out precisely what the note said… >> >> I once had a related incident, where in high-school I was accosted by a >> gang of 5 teenage switch-blade-carrying delinquents – very much like the >> last scene in *Westside Story*. I was able to walk away uninjured. I >> starting by challenging their leader… >> >> I would think that SOMEONE has studied this sort of thing in the past - >> does anyone here know of such a study? >> >> Mediations seem SO much like ball squeezing contests. So, what is the >> winning strategy? >> >> With no agreement my group gets nothing, and the other group must wait 20 >> years to get it all. With an agreement, we cut this baby in two according >> to agreed upon percentages. >> >> There seems to be two camps: >> 1. Demand 100%, or else Russian Roulette in court with maybe a 50:50 >> chance, and >> 2. Divide it in half or ??? >> >> There will doubtless be head games, Mutt and Jeff setups, etc., as this >> thing unfolds. >> >> I posted this here because SO much of what people here expect an AGI to >> resolve are disputes much like this one. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Steve Richfield >> >> > > -- > Stefan Reich > BotCompany.de // Java-based operating systems > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5dd6b6c7d648588e-Ma26438309030794b18e10f3a> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5dd6b6c7d648588e-M1b5464378f23c1915a9dee61 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
