I highly recommend playing this game. It takes about thirty minutes to finish.
For the first part of it, I was only mildly interested though the game is reasonably engaging.
When it got a point where communication mistakes are factored in, I sat up and took notice.
The game is a very simple computer model of some very simple basic choices human beings make all the time. Without giving away too much, even this simple model shows something I bet most of us can already see.
And that is: zero-sum games do not give rise to trust. Win-win games do.
What was most interesting to me is the game also shows that communication mistakes foster trust if there are not too many of them.
Accepting mistakes in communication requires trust. Mistakes happen. When two people accept that in each other and in themselves, trust grows.
This is a very important point and a foundation of FIML practice.
In fact, I would say that mistakes foster trust even more in FIML than other communication games. This happens because in FIML mistakes are isolated in such a way that they can be fully recognized and understood for what they are.
This provides a method for solving immediate problems while also building a foundation for the inevitable occurrence of future ones. Moreover, the kinds of mistakes people make become less stupid.
In many respects, the game of FIML is largely one of recognizing communication mistakes or potential mistakes as soon as they arise, within seconds of their onset.
By doing that FIML shows us how our deep psychology is actually functioning in real-life. Multiple insights into this aspect of psychology are transformational.
MAGA billionaire Peter Thiel has angered the Vatican by hosting a four–part lecture series in Rome warning that the Antichrist is coming and will subject humanity to a ‘one–world’ government.
Thiel, 58, has raised concerns for months about what he views as an imminent threat, according to The New York Times.
The tycoon, who made his money by setting up PayPal, has warned of the ‘occult forces [that] are ceaselessly at work, intent on destroying what remains of the West,’ the outlet reported.
Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, attended the final talks between the US and Iran and judged that the offer made by Tehran on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent a rush to war, the Guardian can reveal.
Powell thought progress had been made in Geneva in late February and that the deal proposed by Iran was “surprising”, according to sources.
Powell’s attendance at the Geneva talks, as well as at a previous set of meetings earlier in the month in the Swiss city, helps in part to explain the UK government’s reluctance to back the US attack on Iran, a reluctance that has put the UK-US relationship under unprecedented strain.
The UK saw no compelling evidence of an imminent threat of an Iranian missile attack on Europe, or of Iran securing a nuclear weapon. This is the first time it has become clear that Britain was so closely involved in the talks, and so had good reason to decide whether diplomatic options had been exhausted and a US attack was necessary.
Instead the UK regarded the attack as unlawful and premature since Powell believed the path remained open to a negotiated solution to the long-running issue of how Iran could reassure the US that it was not seeking a nuclear weapon.
Normal socially-defined communication—business, school, professional, etc.—operates within known limits and terminologies. Skill is largely defined as understanding how to use the system without exceeding its limits, how to play the game.
Many other forms of communication must be imagined. That is, I have to imagine what you mean and you have to imagine what I mean.
In many cases of this type I will imagine that you are normal to the extent that I am able to imagine what normal is. And I will imagine that you imagine me to be normal. As I imagine you I will probably assume that your sense of what is normal is more or less the same as mine. This is probably what the central part of the bell curve of imagined communication looks like. People in this group are capable of imagining and cleaving to normal communication standards. If you reciprocate, we will probably get along fine.
If my imagination is better than normal, I will be able to imagine more than the normal person or given to imagining more. If this is the case, I will tend to want to find a way to communicate more than the norm to you. If you reciprocate, we might do well communicating. If you don’t, I might appear eccentric to you or distracted.
If my imagination is worse than normal, I will have trouble imagining or understanding normal communication. I won’t have a good sense of the cartoons we are required to make of each other and will probably appear awkward or scatterbrained to most people. If you reciprocate, we might do well communicating and find comfort in each other.
Normal communication, even when imagined, is based on something like cartoons. I see myself as a cartoon acting in relation to the cartoon I imagine for you. If my cartoon fits you well enough that you like it and if your cartoon of me fits well enough that I like it, we have a good chance of becoming friends.
A great deal of normal imagined communication is cartoon-like, and being normal, will take the bulk of its cartoons from mass media—movies, TV, radio, and, to a lesser extent today, books and other art forms.
People still read and learn from books and art, but normal communication has come to rely heavily on the powerful cartoons of mass media.
The big problem with our systems of imagined communication is they are highly idiosyncratic, messy, and ambiguous. We have to spend a lot of time fixing problems and explaining what we really mean.
It’s good to have idiosyncratic communication, but we have to find ways to understand each other on those terms.
The battle for the soul of the American Right is no longer fought in whispers. It has erupted into open warfare, with a taxpayer-funded Jewish organization demanding that Tucker Carlson be purged from conservative media and banished from President Donald Trump’s coalition entirely.
Days after the United States and Israel launched military operations against Iran in early March 2026, the Tikvah Fund released a podcast episode that laid bare the neoconservative establishment’s fury at populist opposition to the war. Former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that conservatives must “wholeheartedly” reject Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens over their “nuttiness” and “anti-Semitism.” Pompeo insisted the “isolationist” wing of MAGA does not represent “the Trump that I worked for.”
Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Doran went further. “I want to see Tucker Carlson dethroned,” Doran told Tikvah’s Jonathan Silver. “I would like to see him become an embarrassment to JD Vance. I would like to see Donald Trump attack him. Not just call him kooky from now and then but really make him off-limits to everybody in the administration.”
Chris Menahan of Information Liberation called attention to the podcast and how the Tikvah Fund is subsidized by gentile taxpayers: “Keep in mind as you watch that this is Trump admin/US taxpayer-funded cancel culture.”
…The frantic campaign to purge figures like Tucker Carlson from the American Right reveals the inherent fragility of Jewish influence. By attempting to use the coercive power of the state to suppress rising populist dissent, organized Jewish power inadvertently accelerates the very instability it fears. This escalation into state-sponsored censorship is a desperate bid to maintain control, yet it serves only to deepen the rift with the gentile population. As the ideology of the current establishment begins to turn against its own Jewish architects, this current conflict represents merely the latest chapter in an unavoidable and predictable civilization struggle between gentiles and Jews for civilizational primacy.
Jewish Supremacy, funded by USA taxpayers, out in the open attacking free speech and entirely reasonable dissention from their arrogant and groundless supremacist views. JS caused this wanton war. To what extent Trump agrees with them or is forced to play along or is even a crypto Jew or JS himself, is hard to tell. One thing is certain, this is a terrible way to run a country. As Trump said they other day, ‘it is a habit’ of USA to do JS bidding. ABN
Donald Trump‘s top counterterrorism official has resigned in protest over the Iran war, accusing Israel of pressuring the US into a conflict he says was built on lies.
Joseph Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said Iran posed no imminent threat and the war was started ‘due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,’ adding: ‘I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war.’
Kent, who served under Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, accused the President of reneging on the non-interventionist principles he campaigned on.
‘Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation,’ the former Army Special Forces soldier wrote in his resignation letter.
‘The time for bold action is now. You can reverse course and chart a new path for our nation, or you can allow us to slip further toward decline and chaos. You hold the cards.’
Trump’s top counterterrorism official has resigned in protest over the Iran war, accusing Israel and its ‘powerful American lobby’ of pressuring the US into a conflict he says was built on lies
Kent, who deployed to combat 11 times and lost his wife Shannon in what he calls a war manufactured by Israel, is closely aligned with the populist ‘America First’ wing of the Trump administration, including Gabbard and Vice President JD Vance, who have both warned against new Middle East entanglements.
His resignation lays bare a widening split inside Trumpworld. Kent accused high-ranking Israeli officials and members of the American media of running a ‘misinformation campaign’ to deceive the President into believing Iran posed an imminent threat, drawing a direct parallel to the lead-up to the Iraq war.
This is a major upside of this war for Israel — every day more Americans become aware of the danger of Jewish Supremist infiltration throughout our government and society; their bribery, blackmail and murder. Trump’s cabinet have all bowed and scraped before the Jewish Supremists. A possible good side of that is at least some of them are covert true patriots waiting for right conditions to disarm JS power over USA. ABN
One good thing about Trump’s downfall is many more now understand that USA is an occupied nation. The next step is to build on this understanding so even more will understand that USA has been occupied for many decades by Jewish Supremists. Through cunning, treachery, and violence this gang has seized total control of USA. What we are seeing today is ‘only’ the most recent and obvious manifestation of that. ABN
He doesn’t look real, even without the ring anomaly. I wonder if he is trolling the world with these fakes. Many believe he is dead, killed by a missile. ABN
This is an excellent overview of the Iran War by a well-recognized expert on Iran. Napolitano is a skilled interviewer who has the good sense to keep his videos short and to the point. For this one, I wish he had gone on longer. Parsi lays out background and ancillary information very well, and has a clear take on Israel’s underhanded role in talking Trump into this catastrophe. ABN
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