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Researchers at Yale University have found that the more allies a country has, the less power it has. The authors say the findings have potential implications for current events.
The scientists published their results in the July issue of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS), a joint publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA).
The scientists developed a simple, yet sophisticated, computer game to examine relationships between countries and the resulting strategic environments."We have developed a power allocation game to study countries' strategic interactions in a complex environment," said Yuke Li from Yale University. Dr. Li and Prof. A. Stephen Morse, the Dudley Professor of distributed control and adaptive control in electrical engineering at Yale University, used the game to ask if having more allies in a networked, strategic environment will always be beneficial to a country in terms of power allocation outcomes. "The answer is, surprisingly, no. This is especially so for a country without sufficient power to mediate between the conflicts among its potential allies."
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-allies-decrease-country-power.html
[Abstract]: The power allocation game on a network: a paradox
At the rate at which the current POTUS is alienating allies, the USA will become even more powerful, as per the above article.
(Score: 2) by dast on Wednesday June 27 2018, @02:46AM (6 children)
This particular paper aside, I often wonder if we won't be studying the mathematics of government some day.
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Wednesday June 27 2018, @02:48AM (1 child)
yo, pi = 3
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @03:46AM
government has the electrolytes that pi craves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @02:54AM
Did you consider toilet paper math: https://i.imgur.com/DpMzzYm_d.jpg [imgur.com]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday June 27 2018, @02:55AM
But of course we will.
And who could be better prepared to study power than the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (pretty much as the current TFA case)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @03:07AM
See Asimov, Hari Seldon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Seldon [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday June 27 2018, @05:40PM
SimCity was originally created as a simple model of how a city worked by people associated with a bunch of urban planners. That's only the original SimCity, of course, not the later releases...they could be similar, but I have no knowledge of their development, and suspect that there were mainly changed to make the game more interesting rather than more accurate.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.