And also, I think a lot of real-world things are hard to simulate, because they're things like strong cultural ties to specific bits of land that will feel very arbitrary if generated randomly. Or they're in your own head, only.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @perdricof and
Because I *do* play games like that sometime (I must avenge the battle of Turn 40) but the CPU doesn't know that.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @chrysopoetics and
interestingly, "failing to understand the enemy's motivations and ideology" is actually a really common feature of diplomacy -- often this is the cause of truly great catastrophes
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Replying to @perdricof @mssilverstein and
pearl harbor is an instructive example. the japanese assumed this would bloody america's nose and dissuade us from pursuing a long and costly war, when in fact it assured the exact opposite and led to the total destruction of the japanese regime. whoops!
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Replying to @perdricof @mssilverstein and
There were even people who said so at the time (the Sleeping Giant speech) Sam Houston said something very similar warning his fellow Southern politicians about why secession was a really stupid idea
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Using the old metaphor of climate for temperament "Your Northern brothers may seem like they lack your fiery temper, for they were raised in colder climes But once their anger is aroused it will crush you with the full force of an avalanche"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
I mentioned earlier the South's various "Ranger" units just letting bandits and thugs run free robbing and killing people along the border Which was this conscious strategy going "Yankees are all soft clerks who will crumple instantly at their first bloody nose"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
This was also broadly the sense in Imperial Germany at the outbreak of World War I - France is soft, and they'll melt before our brave troops. Then everybody died.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
I don't think you can really call that 'racism' given that it's two super-white countries, but even at very high levels, that kind of ethnic stereotyping usually drives analysis and it's always wrong.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
For all we talk about intentional propaganda efforts which are deliberate lies to accomplish a political objective — as often as not, the people spreading them believe their own lies.
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Yeah believing your own hype is the most dangerous failure mode for trying to win a propaganda war It's all well and good until the citizens who grew up thinking the enemy were all idiots and cowards actually become the leaders
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
an observation that i am sure has no relevance at all to the current american political situation
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