Editing Blog/2025-11-28/A Better Class of Thief (section)

== Motorcycle Theft ==

Anyway, the number one problem in a city like San Francisco is theft. [[Motorcycle Theft|I've had my motorcycle stolen before in this town, and it's unpleasant]]. At the time I used my motorcycle for all commutes and I really enjoyed riding it. It was a real pleasure to use. Traffic didn't matter, and any time I was on the freeway and wanted to get away from a mess of cars I just punched it.

Notably, the mistake I made with the motorcycle is that I thought that since the motorcycle was unusable by anyone but the most sophisticated thief, and it wasn't valuable enough for a sophisticated thief, it was safe from theft. That's not true, and it should be obvious.

There is a class of very stupid thieves. They will put in a lot of work to do things that will never work. They will make their lives and yours hard and it won't even be a zero-sum game, or even a simple negative-sum game, it will just be a strictly negative payoff game: nobody wins anything. The Winning Move Is Not To Play<ref name=wargames/>.