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A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.

— Anatol Rapoport

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A fundamental value in the scientific outlook is concern with the best available map of reality.

A system is recognized as such by remaining recognizable as 'itself' in spite of changes in its detailed appearance.

The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.

The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of collective rationality.

Anatol Rapoport (1974)

Crisis in its simplest terms is defined as an upset in a steady state... the habitual problem-solving activities are not adequate and do not rapidly lead to the previously achieved balance state.

Prisoner's dilemma: A study in conflict and cooperation (1965)

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