# Bruce Schneier’s book Liars and Outliers intersects with this material, & so
may be of interest.

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Bruce Schneier’s book _Liars and Outliers_ intersects with this material,  &
so may be of interest. Schneier does a statistical & game-theoretic analysis
to figure out what percentage of cheaters in a society is actually stable &
how extreme they could reasonably be, ultimately concluding that trust (in
strangers, in institutions, etc.) is basically justified because of the strong
incentives to get rid of free riders above a certain threshhold before the
whole damn thing collapses.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [March 22,
2019](https://medium.com/p/984e970c168b).

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outliers-intersects-with-this-material-so-may-be-of-interest-984e970c168b)

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