Modeling Schadenfreude with Calculus: Primer

New ideas always seem to come after I have finished something.  I had forgotten about schadenfreude (satisfaction or pleasure at someone else’s misfortune) up until recently.  I used the term malevolence as a substitute for it in my book, but it would have been nice if I had mentioned it.  I’ll do a series of posts explaining how to model it.

Another idea that came too late for me to add the book regards salience, specifically the choice of a specific action among others.  Basically, it would hold that whatever valuation possesses the most salience (e.g., highest or is anticipated to be the highest) at the time of a deadline for action would be acted upon.  I suppose it could be intuited from it, but oh well.

Brace yourselves!