Sentences with phrase «zero sum»

Ostensibly this is not a zero sum game, with winner take all.

It isn't a zero sum game: having another positive male in their lives doesn't take away from your relationship with your kids.

Litigation, Tesler wrote, is a zero sum process that is more costly than divorcing families can afford financially and emotionally.

Second, to convey a message to the legislators that notwithstanding good intentions to provide taxpayer relief, because that is what this credit is to do, the zero sum approach of denying any credit without agreement can, in certain circumstances, create a harsh and unfair result contrary to their intention of providing relief.

Accepting influence is also about moving from a position of «me» to «we,» which requires a shift toward more maturity and complexity, beyond seeing the world as a binary, win - lose, right - wrong, zero sum game.

I took the broader point Dawkins was making about the evolution of zero sum and nonzero sum activities in human social interaction, but the specific content of the example he used, about divorce in the legal system, flowed in and flowed out of memory.

Dawkins uses the example of divorce in the legal system to highlight the evolutionary development of zero sum and nonzero sum activities.

Zero sum for the clients, very much nonzero sum for the lawyers.»

The prisoner's dilemma game introduces the constructs of a zero sum game in which one person winning causes the other person to lose (win - lose strategies; selfishness), and nonzero sum games where both players can win (win - win strategies; cooperation).

What looks like a zero sum confrontation can, with a little goodwill, be transformed into a mutually beneficial nonzero sum game.

It's not a zero sum game.

All in all, the split is not a zero sum game because there are high chances of both chains flourishing in parallel.

Paying smaller amounts becomes mostly a zero sum game, with existing debts (IOUs) being redistributed between people who trust each other.

Generally, the insurance companies play the «zero sum game» where they lure the buyers with the back - dating feature.

It is a zero sum game — if firms count total compensation as an expense, there will be no profits.

Examples of this «zero sum game» include hourly rates being either two high for the client's budget or too low for the firm's profitability, law firms billing more hours than necessary while clients expect fewer hours than is feasible and the belief by the firm that a client's legal misfortune is the firm's opportunity.

He challenged the notion that the resolutions would harm the profession, stating «I would submit that this is an invalid premise — that this is a zero sum game and that nonlawyers will be taking food out the mouth of lawyers... There are substantial unmet legal needs that are not being met by members of the organized bar.»

Ed Walters: Well, I don't like that David and Goliath metaphor necessarily, because I think David and Goliath is kind of zero sum.

There really is a hope that people will get more and better help, and again, not in a zero sum way.

While initially developed to analyze competitions in which one individual does better at another's expense (zero sum games), it has been expanded to treat a wide class of interactions, which are classified according to several broad types of games.

Indeed, for some a more confident second chamber would act as a restraint upon the Executive (as distinct from the Commons itself, which, of course, it dominates) and therefore reform does not represent «a zero sum game», but one in which Parliament as a whole benefits vis - à - vis the government.

While good litigators typically have good negotiating skills (most lawsuits being settled, after all), there is a fundamental difference between the largely zero sum context of litigation and transactional lawyering.

If the lawyers can develop trust between parties or with opposing counsel despite the conflict, the clients will emerge much more satisfied with a solution than if everyone views it as a zero sum game or a transaction.

But in a zero sum world created by a CO2 freeze, countries like China would have much more incentive to create trouble outside its borders.

It's a zero sum game — somebody wins, somebody loses.

It's tough socially and politically because without growth, economic gain or loss becomes a zero sum thing, and questions of equity become extremely pointed indeed.

I'm saying that departures above and below the mean are not necessarily transfers from one existing reservoir to another, which would be a zero sum game, but could also be changes in the amount of shortwave energy absorbed from the sun.

There is also no hypothetical basis to presume that, even if it's a zero sum game, that there aren't cyclic trends with periods lasting centuries required to zero it.

Burying those issues under a pile of hyperbole seems to me to likely to contribute nothing positive except sameolsemol — finger - pointing, zero sum labeling, etc..

But that is a zero sum game.

Because the DLR effect is a zero sum process the only remaining deficit to be accounted for is the natural background one from «unprovoked» evaporation.

I know how tempting it is to assert (or rather, hope) that an average might cancel some of the errors made by each of the three methods, but as long as they share data they are in no sense independent, as long as the are based on differing methodology the are in no sense identically distributed, and there is no theorem or sound argument I can imagine that errors in methodology are unbiased, zero sum white noise drawn from some trendless distribution.

IMO, the unproductive and endless zero sum gain / scorched - earth rhetoric (i.e., same ol' same ol' battering each other upside the head with oppositional positions) lies in the all too huan psychological tendency to engage in identity - aggressive and identity - defensive posturing on heavily polarized issues that overlap social, political, and cultural identifications.

Or, if water releases were required for drought alleviation needs even if the power weren't needed in China, the electricity produced by the release could be used by neighboring countries or «stored» in the «interconnected» network, creating a «zero sum» in terms of energy production.

Upper 700m temps flat, so if they are under the glare of an increased heat flux then more hot water has to go down to the depths and, in a zero sum game, cold water from below 700m must come up.

Klein instead prefers the story that there is sufficient wealth, but that evil robber barons keep it from those who need it — a childish «zero sum game» view of wealth and inequality.

But when you come back to where you started, it's a zero sum game (less with friction).

It's a zero sum game.

We have stop making climate change a zero sum if - you - win - I - lose battle.

Better handling of uncertainty should be key to the debate — but when you fabricate polemics out of climate scientists» discussion of uncertainty, you expose a different, tribal, zero sum game, scorched earth, agenda.»

Instead, I see people taking a scorched earth, zero sum game on both sides — because argument about climate change has become a proxy battle in a larger, ideological struggle.

It is a zero sum game format.

Banks won't let us play negative zero sum commodity games that way.

I don't think, however, that this result suggests the advent of geoengineering as subject of research and as an issue for public discussion will be a zero sum game for public engagement with climate science.

«So it's not a sort of a zero sum game, there is a cost to not doing this, and although there is a cost to acting, what we're trying to do is to actually weigh up the different costs here.»

Fairer distribution doesn't have to be a zero sum game.

You just see a fairer society as a zero sum game.

His is the zero sum total of the tradition begun by Albert Bierstaedt and Thomas Moran, who invented «the West» through paintings that incorporated idealized views realized in the studio.

Every encounter is zero sum.

@KiwiViper85: Why are we always approaching consoles like it's a zero sum game.