Saturday, December 18, 2010

WikiLeaks...does it have any impact?

I appreciate that Wikileaks is the best that could have happened to international Journalism, but at the same time is it worth the scoop?

I believe 'No' and wouldn't mind if you disagree with me.....

To Support my belief, I would have to introduce you to a very important concept in strategy - the Nash equilibrium, named after John Nash, is a set of strategies, one for each player, such that no player has incentive to unilaterally change his/her action. Players are in equilibrium if a change in strategies by any one of them would lead that player to earn less than if he/she remained with his/her current strategy. For games in which players randomize (mixed strategies), the expected or average payoff must be at least as large as that obtainable by any other strategy.

Did I confuse you?
If yes, to put it in a nut shell, what I mean is the secrets that have been leaked out by wikileaks are nothing but information, which is of no use now or in future.
It could be exciting to hear that 'Australia thinks China as a big Problem for world peace, even though when Australia has good economic ties with China' or ' When Rahul gandhi says that he is concerned more about Hindu terrorism rather than any other form of terrorism'; but honestly this set of information holds no value.
Because, secrets are good as long as it is kept a secret and as long as it has value. So, information flushed out by Wiki leaks is niether a secret nor has any value, so it is nothing more than exciting information.
I know you might say, that wikileaks did bring out the American side of the Iraq or Afghanistan war which is very dirty and not acceptable to any human standards. But how does that change things, it happened in Vietnam war and it has hapened again.
So let us take it this way, every country has its own secret strategy to play which we can call as Plan A and als has more than 2 back up Plans called B and C up its sleeves to take care for events like wikileaks!
So, now I bring you to the most important concept in Strategy, which even mother nature agrees to - "Survival of the fittest".........

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Refer to the following link for more info on Nash equilibirium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma