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Affiliates flock to scam gambling machine

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110 points mikhael | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 22:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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ks2048 ◴[30 Aug 25 23:59 UTC] No.45079090[source]▶
There seems to be an analogous concept of the Second Law of Thermodynamics - everything in society will tend towards scams if not actively opposed.
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1. elliotto ◴[31 Aug 25 04:46 UTC] No.45080446[source]▶
The optimal strategy in a resource acquisition game with no rules is usually just to kill all the other players. This results in really bad nash equilibria where everyone is dead.

I think about this as entropic decay - the lowest energy state of a social system (Hobbes' state of nature).

Lucky it is possible to create social and economic systems that use cooperation to produce better individual and group utility (dissipative structures). But there is a particular arm of politics that is currently dismantling these to feast on their cores.