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A person’s behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information.

— Robert Aumann War and peace (2005)

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"Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.

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I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

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Capitulation, sycophancy, and cowardice will only undermine us... Sometimes, you have to courageously follow your own path and not try to curry favor with anyone.

Repetition acts as an enforcement mechanism: It makes cooperation achievable when it is not achievable in the one-shot game, even when one replaces strategic equilibrium as the criterion for achievability by the more stringent requirement of perfect equilibrium.

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