“Positive-sum solutions to multi-period stag hunts select for time consistency more than cost effectiveness.” @akhilrao https://akhilrao.org/blog/2025/07/03/selecting-for-time-consistency/

remarkable insights into what leadership and coordination actually entail, in the dry language of game theory. except with space stuff and death cults. 1/

@akhilrao project designs demanding “unnecessarily” expensive commitments, work to ensure partners highly committed to shared values, can augur success in ways that seem irrational, inefficient, dumb to reviewers who imagine a dictator with a Gantt chart can just get every participant to play their part. /fin