
September 6th 08, 10:11 AM
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Close roads, speed up traffic
Doug wrote:
On 5 Sep, 12:26, Tom Anderson wrote:
Science:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...riving-causes-...
I look forward to reading the paper, and to following development of
these ideas in the future.
The source says:
"Uncoordinated individuals in human society pursuing their personally
optimal strategies do not always achieve the social optimum, the most
beneficial state to the society as a whole. Instead, strategies form
Nash equilibria which are often socially suboptimal. Society,
therefore, has to pay a price of anarchy for the lack of coordination
among its members."
Or in other words, selfish drivers do not serve the common good and
give anarchists a bad name. Well, we knew that already didn't we.
No Doug, people behave like that whether they are drivers or not. Anarchists
are by nature selfish.
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