Crosspost from my blog.

Introduction

Conflict pervades the world. Conflict can come from mere mistkes, but many conflicts are not mere mistakes. We don't understand conflict. We doubly don't understand conflict because some conflicts masquerade as mistakes, and we wish that they were mere mistakes, so we are happy to buy in to that masquerade. This is a mistake on our part, haha. We should study conflict until we understand it.

This essay makes some attempt to sketch a few aspects of conflict—in large part as a hopeful gesture toward the possibility of understanding other aspects.

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Outline:

(00:12) Introduction

(00:51) Synopsis

(01:38) Escalation is sensitive to derivatives

(04:35) Escalation is sensitive to perceived derivatives

(05:50) There is plenty of fuel to perceive escalation

(12:13) There are plenty of biases to overemphasize escalation

(18:16) Fake mistaken perception

(21:11) Why do Purples want to escalate

(22:34) Why doesnt everything explode immediately?

(23:45) What to do about it?

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