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Sudden escalation of stakes can transform iterated trust into one-shot opportunism

Sudden escalation of stakes can transform iterated trust into one-shot opportunism

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Sep 20, 20261 min read

Sudden escalation of stakes can transform iterated trust into one-shot opportunism

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  • Acting-trust pressure can rearrange beliefs to justify exceptions
  • Apparent one-shot trust is often calculated group-level risk
  • Catastrophic stalemate can result from momentary dominance failure rather than organic crisis
  • Fear of surprise attack feeds back into raising each side's own probability of attacking
  • Incremental gameplay permits adversaries to build trust that rapid moves destroy
  • One-shot trade games yield cheating as the unique equilibrium.
  • Repeated future encounters make trust breach structurally costly
  • Repeated interaction transforms the incentives of a one-way trust game
  • Short time horizons drive protectors from protection toward extortion
  • Small first-strike temptations can compound into attack through interacting expectations alone
  • The victim role shifts as protected parties alternately lose their protectors
  • Trust cannot be paired with obligation as promises are