¶ Leaders Can Yield to the Computer
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Leaders Can Yield to the Computer:
“No opposed politicians may ever yield to their adversary without a trial of relative strength. To yield prior to such a trial of strength is to be either a traitor or a funk. Trial of ultimate political power, in international Malthusian-Darwinian terms, always lead to war. For this reason political leaders avoid arbitration by third parties as subject to subtle corruptibility. But gradually society in general and its political leaders are beginning to yield mutually to computerized solutions of lethally vital disputes where the computer has been given the problem in the terms of the question: in which way do most sides profit the most?”
