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#250: The Art of Strategy

The Art of Manliness

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Game Theory as a Parent With Your Children to Influence Good Behavior

The WIMPs at ABC decided they didn't want to show the photographs because they were afraid of a lawsuit. So as a result, now when they tried to redo the series, people would say, well, you know, if I don't lose the weight, all you have to do is threaten a lawsuit and I'll get off the hook. And so it's just not the threat no longer really exists. What makes that work is the threat. That's part of one aspect of strategizing is using threats.

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