"Comes up all over all of reality, including in the basic elements of the human body that the tiny-spiral instructions say how to make, which fold up into configurations of least local tension in order to - have the kinds of material properties that they do.  I'd guessed that spells were the same way almost as soon as I heard about them."

"Anyways, I agree that's a good metaphor, but if you could have a very simple arrangement of three players with three jellychips of three kinds, what would you say about that situation which made it a local multi-agent optimum, and what would you say about it that made it a global multi-agent optimum."

"Comes up all over all of reality, including in the basic elements of the human body that the tiny-spiral instructions say how to make, which fold up into configurations of least local tension in order to - have the kinds of material properties that they do.  I'd guessed that spells were the same way almost as soon as I heard about them."

"Anyways, I agree that's a good metaphor, but if you could have a very simple arrangement of three players with three jellychips of three kinds, what would you say about that situation which made it a local multi-agent optimum, and what would you say about it that made it a global multi-agent optimum?"

"Comes up all over all of reality, including in the basic elements of the human body that the tiny-spiral instructions say how to make, which fold up into configurations of least local resistance in order to - have the kinds of material properties that they do.  I'd guessed that spells were the same way almost as soon as I heard about them."

"Anyways, I agree that's a good metaphor, but if you could have a very simple arrangement of three players with three jellychips of three kinds, what would you say about that situation which made it a local multi-agent optimum, and what would you say about it that made it a global multi-agent optimum?"