“It does mean that their reactions must be part of the equation. Just like in chess.”
They always are. The problem is one’s prediction of another’s actions are not always what that other is actually contemplating.
> The problem is one’s prediction of another’s actions are not always what that other is actually contemplating. <
Ah, yes. Well said. And that’s why we pay the professionals (not that they do any better).
Someone once said that you’d get a better government if you just picked names randomly out of a phone book. That’s probably true.