{"id":17887,"date":"2010-04-04T15:06:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T23:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17887"},"modified":"2010-04-04T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T23:11:55","slug":"the-predator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17887","title":{"rendered":"The Predator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I walked the mean streets of Pico-Robertson today, I felt weak, tired and vulnerable. I was exhausted. I didn&#8217;t want to talk to anyone. I just wanted to run my errands, to pick up my groceries, and to retreat home for the final two days of Passover (holy days when work is forbidden).<\/p>\n<p>I got home and returned to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Gilder\">George Gilder<\/a>&#8216;s book, <em><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Israel-Test-George-Gilder\/dp\/0980076358\">The Israel Test<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fascinated by its description of game theory (from pages 194-200). <\/p>\n<p>If you are unlikely to have future transactions with somebody, the rational policy is to be predatory. Get all you can get.<\/p>\n<p>The more often you expect to interact with somebody, the more incentive you have to treat them well.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Orthodox Judaism. It is a small world. You repeatedly run into the same people. You have a high incentive to treat them well.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, when you go to a nightclub in a big city and just look to get laid, you don&#8217;t have a lot of incentive to be ethical in your dealings.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymity breeds disgusting behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I walked the mean streets of Pico-Robertson today, I felt weak, tired and vulnerable. I was exhausted. I didn&#8217;t want to talk to anyone. I just wanted to run my errands, to pick up my groceries, and to retreat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17887\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,17027,21],"tags":[21768,32586,5267,1132,21767],"class_list":["post-17887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-george-gilder","category-personal","tag-game-theory","tag-george-gilder","tag-holy-days","tag-orthodox-judaism","tag-rational-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17891,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions\/17891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}