Rob Lamb

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Stuff To Blow Your Mind · From the Vault: The Devil You Know, Part 1 · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

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Madness. voice-verified

This came out in 2019 from Cambridge University Press. voice-verified

And in this, the author points out that a reputation for madness would seem to be more often harmful than helpful in international coercion. voice-verified

So it undercuts the leader's ability to make believable peace commitments, treaties, and so forth, which, and it really almost feels absurd that we need to stress this. voice-verified

These are all very voice-verified

vital for peaceful relations between nations. voice-verified

No one knows what I'll do easily slides into no one knows what I'll honor. voice-verified

No one no one knows what treaties I would uh will I'll actually stand by and so forth. voice-verified

Um, you know, to bring this back to Dungeons and Dragons, I think any DD player worth their salt knows that while you might well enter into a pact with a lawful evil devil, you never enter into a pact with a chaotic evil demon. voice-verified

Because the lords of the nine hell are going to stick to their letter of the contract, if not the spirit of the contract. voice-verified

But demon lords, such as the Demogorgon, will honor nothing and there is no coherence even within themselves. voice-verified

They're just pure ambiguity. voice-verified

and you can't strike any sort of deal because they won't s they won't stand by it no matter what. voice-verified

Whereas the devils being lawful evil, they may look for that wiggle room. voice-verified

They may find ways to um, you know, to to avoid the spirit of the deal, but they're still bound to the letter. voice-verified

then you slide into chaos. voice-verified

Pure chaos. voice-verified

Uh, McManus, uh, back to her paper though, she found that madmen theory may be helpful in crisis bargaining, but only under certain conditions, namely when employed by military weak leaders. voice-verified

So we're not talking about a true superpower here that can engage in like true, mutually assured destruction. voice-verified

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