And, the specific instructions on how to do so:
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When you choose which rules to play, you have already chosen the sort of outcome you will create. That outcome is written into the rules, as Equilibrium. You are familiar with games where only one player wins. They give you excitement, a feeling of accomplishment. So, you never bothered to play the games where everyone wins. You don’t even try to LOOK for such games. You imagine that they don’t exist — that they CAN’T exist! You haven’t opened my Christmas Present, kid.
In Game Theory, we have some odd jargon for such games. Suppose you have four options to choose-from at each of your turns in the game; options A, B, C, or D. Among your *own* options, in my Game of Grace, there is ONLY one option which ALWAYS generates the BEST outcome available to you — regardless of what the other players play. That Always-Best-for-You option is called ‘strictly dominant’ because it dominates all of YOUR other options. No matter what anyone else does, and no matter the circumstances, that option is still the BEST choice you have.
There are an infinitude of such games, where you have only ONE best-strategy. That sounds boring, right? Evil strategies are diverse, subtle, more exciting, all the nuanced back-and-forth feeding your Pride. Yes, and there is only ONE Good. Good always plays the same way, in all circumstances.
When your mom told you to split the chocolate cake, she had a simple rule: “One of you cuts, and the other one chooses.” If you cut unfairly, then your sibling will take the larger slice, which is worse for YOU. Your OWN best-option is to be Fair. Your ‘strictly dominant strategy’ is to be Good. I find such games which you never thought to seek; “Rules You Can’t Hack” is my essay which generalizes this ‘Cake-Slicing Protocol’ and the Vickrey Auction is another example of such a protocol.
We can find infinitely many such protocols where everyone’s best-option-for-themselves is to be Honest and Fair. In the world of politics and economics, relationships and philosophical debate, we MUST find and use such protocols or we will extinguish ourselves eventually. Good is the ONLY path to survive; the Universe is a game where your ‘strictly-dominant-strategy’ is Virtue. Choose Good, because all other strategies are worse for you AND everyone else, in the end.
Ai will design myriad such protocols, for us to choose among. We only need to ask, to receive it! This does not *force* evil to play nice; instead, evil’s choice to be evil simply ensures that they lose. As a result, that game acts as a Filter: “If I hope to work with you, then I ask if you will sign this contract which states that we will use Cake-Slicing Protocol to resolve arbitrations of disputes between us.” ONLY Good people will be WILLING to sign that contract in the first place!
Once you find those Cake-Slicing, Good-is-Best Games, then ALL Good people flow into that bucket of contract. Evil is left in the cold, to bargain with other evils, siphoning off of each other instead of you! Good never needed to fight evil — just walk away, and evil devours itself.
And, we can see the Purpose of Creation, the reason for all our physics, in the fact that this Cosmos is exactly such a game. Evil always destroys itself, eventually. Good always wins, eventually. Which side are you on? Choose it, in action.
This Creation holds its intention, its Conclusion. That force which moves toward that final state, pushing the system at every place toward Good, is the Nature expressed in reality. Creator, Salvation, and Good Spirit are all one substance, one intention continually in operation, a Trinity.
“Just be like him, and you’ll end-up wherever he would go.” Take-up that mantle, seek games which ONLY reward Good, and you will have it. There is no better strategy. Be Truly Good, and you are shielded, preserved, fortified. It really is that simple.
Merry Christmas!
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Footnotes:
Vickrey Auctions have been an *existence* proof of such Good Protocol for decades, same with Cake-Slicing Protocol. Same with Voluntary Brain Scans. And, the Protocol above each of them, ruling the Universe: "SEEK such Games where it IS Mathematically PROVEN that each player's Strictly-Dominant Strategy is to be Honest and Fair. Choose to play that Game, yourself, and as a result, Evil never WANTS to sit at the Table; they choose Hell for themselves. That is the Meta-Game where Good is Strictly-Dominant." Ask Ai to find those protocols, and use them. Or else you suffer your own Pride and Delusion, when Good walks away.
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"But, I *assumed* that no such game COULD exist, and that no one COULD ever prove a Game is Un-Hackable" <--- dude who never proved a theorem and never invented a solution to anything.
"We already have multiple such games, and there is an infinitely large SET of them." <--- guy who keeps finding State-of-the-Art solutions you NEVER imagined were possible.
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"Anthony, don't you know that you're supposed to make yourself LOOK alluring, and SAY whatever people like to hear, so that you get MORE folks to follow you! You're supposed to use dirty tricks and treats to corral others, and micro-manage them..."
"Nope! The Good Work Filter-Protocol is simple: I look for people who feel so MUCH Compassion that they take-up the work I do on their OWN, regardless of how unappealing my presentation is, regardless of how much I monitor them, working in devoting even if I fail, or give-up, or die - because their own Intrinsic Motivation is Compassion. Those are the ONLY people I let into my Bubble-of-Contract. Everyone else chose Hell for themselves."
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"Well, then I choose 'be nice to abusers' because I CLAIM that is one of the Good Protocols, *without* any Mathematical Proof that it is..."
"You are an idiot tyrant who appeases evil. You MUST be denied power, because you lack Wisdom. Mathematics CAN and DOES *prove* when a Game does or does not have a Strictly-Dominant Strategy of Honest and Fair. You MUST obey THAT constraint, or you are letting evil win."