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Two Generals' Problem

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by Maro • 1 year ago

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bell-cot• 1 year ago

Admitting that I've read far too much military history...

- How did those two guys get promoted to General, if they're incompetent enough to get themselves into a situation where this is serious problem?

- Given the stated goal of attacking the fortified City, the City's field forces (in the valley between the two Generals) need to be polished off first. Whichever General is the plausible leader for that (higher seniority, larger forces, better terrain, whatever) should start attacking them, counting on the other General to quickly notice and launch his own attack.

Maro• 1 year ago

The current state-of-the-art solution is to use Telegram, put The Atlantic's Editor-in-Chief into the chat, and then just check next day's The Atlantic to see what to do.

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