I believe I have heard the expression when someone did an analogy about nuclear war, comparing the danger to a game where the opposite player's objective is not to win but to make you lose. This was apparently called, in game theory, "a scorpion player".
I thought they were called the "scorpion player" but I can not find any proof or anything close to this. Have I remembered wrong ? Is it an other name ? Or have hallucinated the whole thing ?
If anyone has any information on if there is a name for such player, I would be thankfull.
Many thanks.
as pointed out in the comments, you probably did NOT hallucinate this -- it's definitely based on the fable of the scorpion and the frog.
Doesn't seem to be a popular term in game theory though -- I could only find a few references like https://www.spectacle.org/995/scorp.html
Maybe it was used in reference to a specific game, like a model of the fable?