Re: OT: The Geek defense

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:35:11 -0800 (PST), Alistair
<alistair@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On 29 Feb, 02:02, Robert <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On the radio last week a relation****ps expert posed and answered the
question: who is the
>> better mate, a geek or the most popular person in the class? The answer
was the geek, but
>> not for the expected reason that the popular person was already taken.
The reason she gave
>> is that the popular person is "self-monitoring", presenting an image
the listener wants to
>> see. It changes for each listener. It's not who the popular person
really is. The geek
>> isn't so artful; what you see is real.
>
>Each of us is four people: that which we are, that which we think we
>are, that which we perceive others think us to be and that which
>others see us as.

That which we are is reality. Any deviation in the other three is error. I
naively assume
the ideal is no error. 

That's not true under game theory, where you win by forcing the other side
to make errors
by obscuring your next move.