A randomized minimax strategy deliberately destroys all communication between players

Evidence

With a minimax solution, a zero-sum game is reduced to a completely unilateral affair. One not only does not need to communicate with his opponent, he does not even need to know who the opponent is or whether there is one. A randomized strategy is dramatically anti-communicative; it is a deliberate means of destroying any possibility of communication, especially communication of intentions, inadvertent or otherwise. It is a means of expunging from the game all details except the mathematical structure of the payoff, and from the players all communicative relations. — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 250

Categorization

• XREF: Contrast to the Mafia’s mode: the Corleones must communicate commitments and intentions, the opposite of the self-effacing randomized strategy. — connects to: Threats and promises are meaningless in zero-sum games — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 204; Coordination play seeks a meeting of minds while minimax play avoids any — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 229; Destroying communication can be a winning move in coordination games. — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 339 (+3 more)

Related

• Coordination play seeks a meeting of minds while minimax play avoids any (similarity 0.88)
• Destroying communication can be a winning move in coordination games. (similarity 0.85)
• Threats and promises are meaningless in zero-sum games (similarity 0.84)
• Rational players can correlate strategies without communicating, even with conflicting preferences (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Destroying communication can be a winning move in coordination games. #exemplifies (0.85) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 339
• Rational players can correlate strategies without communicating, even with conflicting preferences #contradicts (0.80) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 851
• Partial randomization can turn a conflict-addled game into a profitable equilibrium #qualifies (0.75) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 747
• Instrumentalized communication destroys the possibility of shared truth #complicates (0.72) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 378