hiring a hitman is a complicated game theory problem because the hitman always has the option of just taking the money and calling the cops. you have to convince them that you are capable of hiring another hitman to come after the first hitman, but the very act of trying to hire the first hitman indicates that you don't have a second, more reliable hitman ready to go. so i guess the moral of the story is don't be a landlord. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-07/landlord-sentenced-20-years-in-prison-in-murder-for-hire-plots
@lightninhopkins aha but if you flip every time then you burn your reputation as a hitman, and each time you run the risk of getting whacked yourself if the other person is indeed capable of hiring a real hitman. high risk, sort of medium to low reward
@SnoopJ
Is it illegal to do arbitrage between the person hiring a hitman and the hitman, because then you get into price optimization I think. You would pay more for a chain of hitmen because you could claim to also just be a middleman hitman, so that decreases the likelihood of defection bc you would be free to hire another chain of hitmen to go after the first
@SnoopJ
I guess you would want to hire multiple hitman chains from the beginning because when one chain flips on you you could claim to be a middleman who was hired by the tail of the first chain to hire the head of the second chain and it was the head of the flipped first chain who started the whole thing and is trying to frame you
these kinds of signaling problems are universal for any costly signal. for example when signaling that you are a high value mate, the signal itself implies the question why you don't already have one. being an otherwise extremely attractive partner that's single is suspicious - something else must be going on. so 'i have a girlfriend she just goes to a different school' is an optimal first-round strategy in a multi-round game, if in the second round you become conveniently single. i forget where i was going with this
@hvwaldow
I havent ive just been making my second dating app profile ever and trying to think of how im gonna explain how I have no idea what im doing while remaining datable lol
unrelated: i am recently single as my former astronaut doctor partner had to go to space to heal the moon, and our relationship would not be cut short by me being sent to prison for a botched assassination hmu
@jonny well hello there, I am also not going to prison for attempted or completed violence and also recently single from a highly successful and moral life partner. (Mine died of, um, protesting.) Can I interest you in a flirting?
@iris
Me trying to hype myself up to participate in said flirting: dont fuck this up dont fuck this up dont fuck this up dont speak in third person narration of internal monologue oh god oh fuck
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