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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65419766

@medigoth what has been the precedence for past coronations?

@robryk Depends.

Might work better as an example.

Imagine a game of battleship but where one player is firing the other controls the ships. So we are trying to find an optimal firing pattern vs optimal ship placement.

By default there is no strategy for ship placement I can think of other than to make sure ships arent adjacent. So you have a more or less random placement.

But if ship placement is random then since there are more ship layouts that overlap closer tot he center of the board as opposed to near the edges, then the optimal firing strategy would be to avoid the edges, with the 4 corner spaces being the least favorable target to hit. So the optimal stregy here is to more or less focus away from the walls.

it should also be noted that while random placement does tend to cover squares near the center more often, there is a strategic reason to not prefer walls and intentionally place ships near the center too. That is, once a strike on a ship is made it is easier to guess the orientation of the ship and destroy it for ships next to walls than it is for ships away from walls. So for this reason as well it is generally optimal to place ships asway from walls.

Anyway as you can see this chain of logic can go on as per the premise.

@realcaseyrollins Not sure I see what the connection to diminishing returns might be. I also might be missing something.

@trinsec Also this is the funniest thing you have ever said, you have now just leveled up :)

@trinsec I didnt even think of the princess bride scene when I asked, but yea that is the perfect layperson example really :)

#GameTheory question for everyone...

Is there a name for when an optimal strategy is avoided because the optimal strategy is easily defended against when you know the person is using it in the first place?

Or the reverse, where someone might intentionally use a very poor strategy specifically because the user would never expect a user to pick a poor strategy and thus, at least when assumed it wont be used, becomes a strong strategy?

The key to a happy life:

Be just politically incorrect enough to ensure all the toxic easily triggered people want nothing to do with you, but still kind enough that you dont actually cause anyone any real harm.

I've made a conscious effort to do this for years in most social settings and I need to say, I have a pretty awesome circle of friends.

@Gaythia yea plenty of explanations. Though in my expiernce the poll is fairly legitimate, the left will block people who disagree with their views pretty quickly politically. the right doesnt, but the right has other issues, they are far more likely to follow you around and troll you instead, so im not sure thats any better.