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@freemo @robryk Ok, not adjacent.

This is exactly the kind of game Dr. John Nash was describing. His Nobel Prize winning paper on the subject is here: https://www.cs.upc.edu/~ia/nash51.pdf

@freemo this is at least adjacent to the Nash Equilibrium. When parties will act in response to each other repeatedly there will emerge an optimal strategy that in general is not a single action, but a statistical distribution of actions that do not allow the other party to predict with certainty the next action.

For example in baseball, a pitcher's best pitch might be a fastball, but he will only throw it 70% of the time even though other pitches have worse individual outcomes because he must ensure the batter doesn't just sit on the fast ball.

@arstechnica this and May 11 in the US will be the last time the Covid hypochondriacs will have a platform. In 6 months they will blessedly fall into the background fringe with flat earthers and people who thought the queen was a lizard. Just like Covid they will always be there but their impact on our daily lives will generally go away.

Loneliness isolation and a lack of time spent with peers is quite literally killing teenagers in the US. Parents should be doing everything possible to ensure their teen spend time with their friend IN PERSON. This includes modeling this behavior themselves. Let's make this the summer we all get together again. #teens #lonliness #isolation #COVID19

@Teri_Kanefield In 2018 we all heard very similar messaging during Sen. Feinstein's campaign. But now because of advanced age and illness she is unable to represent the people of California and things like S.J.Res.11 gutting the EPA's ability to regulate trucking emissions pass the Senate 50-49 and Needed judicial appointments languish in committee.

What happens when Pres. Biden suffers even a treatable medical condition in September of 2024? In the present political climate is it wise to nominate someone so old to a job that takes so much? Learn the lesson that Dianne Fienstein's absence from the senate should be teaching us.

https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/republican-senators-take-aim-tougher-epa-standards-heavy-duty-vehicle-emissions

@Popehat I'd ask for some insight that the average person could not get from scrolling Twitter for 5 minutes.

@realcaseyrollins As a matter of parliamentary decorum, during a formal sitting members are not allowed to directly impune other members or witnesses. You may present evidence in contradiction then request clarification or restatement, and for witnesses under oath bring perjury charges at a later date, but if one wants to directly name someone a liar then one must wait until after the end of the hearing to do so.