>If you tolerate bad faith, you ask for more bad faith behavior.
Yet some bad faith behavior comes from misunderstanding, so to be completely intolerant of perceived bad faith behavior would be the same as entering into the endless "tit-for-tat" cheating loop mentioned on the site
"I'm intolerant of your (perceived) bad faith (because you're intolerant of my (perceived) bad faith)"
Works when perceptions aren't muddied, but that is rarely the case
>The lesson is clear, that if you want a world you want to be a part of, then you must become powerful and choose to use that power for good.
I agree broadly, but that logic is also the cause of a lot of cheating
"I cheat because they cheat"
"I need nuclear weapons because they have nuclear weapons"
Tit-for-tat is a great strategy, but it's not a _dominant_ strategy
I think that's the most important point the website makes
Yet some bad faith behavior comes from misunderstanding, so to be completely intolerant of perceived bad faith behavior would be the same as entering into the endless "tit-for-tat" cheating loop mentioned on the site
"I'm intolerant of your (perceived) bad faith (because you're intolerant of my (perceived) bad faith)"
Works when perceptions aren't muddied, but that is rarely the case
>The lesson is clear, that if you want a world you want to be a part of, then you must become powerful and choose to use that power for good.
I agree broadly, but that logic is also the cause of a lot of cheating
"I cheat because they cheat"
"I need nuclear weapons because they have nuclear weapons"
Tit-for-tat is a great strategy, but it's not a _dominant_ strategy
I think that's the most important point the website makes