Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!spar!baba From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.politics.theory Subject: Re: A Mathematical Model for Radical Centrism Message-ID: <115@spar.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 01:14:36 EST Article-I.D.: spar.115 Posted: Fri Mar 1 01:14:36 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 07:32:53 EST References: <88@spar.UUCP> <412@wxlvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 22 Xref: watmath net.politics:7906 net.politics.theory:290 I want to thank Neil Olsen for fleshing out something I dashed off on the spur of the moment. It works better than I had hoped. My original thought was that one measure of the desirability of a society was the size of the "satisfaction space" bounded by the degrees of freedom and security that it affords. Overoptimizing for either freedom or security results in a smaller, distorted region along the favored axis. ^ | f | r |. . <- Libertaria e |!!! . e |!!! . d |###++++++++ . <- The evasive optimum o |###++++++++ . m |@@@%%%%%%%%===. |@@@%%%%%%%%===. <- The "iron rice bowl" ---------------------> security Baba