human
Win one, lose one, Matthew Fisher said privately to Senator Cannon.
gpt
Uganda will come out of this with a pro-Western government, but it might not be too stable. The whole African situation is unstable. Mathematically, it has to be.
human
How's that?
gpt
Do you know the Richardson-Gordon Equations?
human
No. I'm not much of a mathematician, Cannon admitted.
gpt
What do they have to do with this?
human
They were originally proposed by Lewis Richardson, the English mathematician, and later refined by G. R. Gordon. Basically, they deal with the causes of war, and they show that a conglomeration of small states is less stable than a few large ones. In an arms race, there is a kind of positive feedback that eventually destroys the system, and the more active small units there are, the sooner the system reaches the destruction point.
gpt
Any practical politician could have told them that, but I'm glad to hear that a mathematical tool to work on the problem has been devised. Maybe one of these days we won't have to be rule-of-thumb empiricists.
human
Let's hope so,