"This point has applications in evolutionary biology, evolutionary game theory, and conflict situations. **A mild degree of unpredictability in your behavior can help you to protect yourself in situations of conflict**. Say you always have the same threshold of reactions. You take a set level of abuse, say seventeen insulting remarks per week, before getting into a rage and punching the eighteenth offender in the nose. Such predictability will allow people to take advantage of you up to that well-known trigger point and stop there. But if you randomize your trigger point, sometimes overreacting at the slightest joke, people will not know in advance how far they can push you" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[artificial-intelligence]], [[game-theory]], [[conflict]], [[deterrence]] **Source** -- [[202410121132 - B - Fooled by Randomness]] **See Also** -- [[202410130124 - AtN - Embrace asshole'ism like a self-driving car]]