#TIL that so many of my intuitions about the benefit of business built on cooperative principles are supported by math. I need to learn more about game theory. #coop #complexity and #gameTheory
Game Changers: Stories of the Revolutionary Minds behind Game Theory
In this lively history of game theory, a gifted math educator and science writer explains for lay readers the uses and value of this innovative yet easy-to-understand approach to mathematical modeling. Essentially, game theory interprets life as a game with mathematical rules. By following the rules, decisions can be calculated that result in the greatest benefit for all participants.
#DilemmaSim Update - I swapped out the table of results for a difference chart. Now it shows who had the biggest advantage over the course of the simulation.
There's now a 'Random' player, which will be useful for testing strategies against 'just being lucky'. Also happens to give me some more interesting graphs to view.
I plan to add more results views, as well as new options for tweaking the simulation settings. Then I'll focus on custom strategy building.
Just started a new side project this month (year?)
It lets you test out different strategies against the Prisoner's Dilemma. The idea is you can see performance over several rounds, and tweak things like number of rounds, whether to hide context from players, etc.
Eventually, I will enable the user to create a strategy and build a leaderboard. I'm not there yet, but I want to use this as an opportunity to try out some #WebAssembly techniques.
I started following the CMS.611J course and it seems to provides a solid foundation for working in #IndieDev. Specifically how to create and work in a multidisciplinary creative team.
From black hole physics to theoretical behavioural ecology. John M McNamara giving an inaugural lecture in Budapest, Hungary: "The art of the state, modelling the endpoints of evolution by natural selection". (Don't miss the famous photos of Alasdair Houston and John from the 70s)
I have now been waiting twenty minutes for something that should have happened in ten minutes. Do I leave and come back via a detour another day to collect it, or hope that I get it in less time than the detour? I feel like a game theory exam question.
Why don't the world leaders seem to take the #ClimateCrisis more seriously?
Daily, more and more regular people are realizing that our "window" to gradually transition away from #FossilFuel|s closed, long ago, and that we must stop burning them NOW, must stop sucking them out of the ground NOW.
And yet, our leaders—including many quite progressive ones—keep right on planning this slow-motion, decades-long, someday-switch.
Why?
IDK actually know ... I'm just another regular person, watching it unfold.
Quitting #FossilFuels right now would, in fact, be bad for the global economy. Just think, eg, of all the people still paying off loans on their ICE-cars, who wake up tomorrow to find that gasoline is no longer available at any price, and their cars are now less than worthless? And a thousand similar wrenching changes to people and businesses.
But that's actually the best-case, if the whole world quits together.
What if just Germany quits, unilaterally? Or Canada? Or even the US?
Then that country's economy crashes alone, and the rest of the world reaps a benefit, because fossil fuel prices would actually go down, thanks to the decrease in demand.
Every leader on Earth has been aware of this conundrum, one way or another, for 40+ years. Every leader keeps waiting for someone else to take the plunge first.
Here's a fun little game on game theory that my teacher found. It is about how various strategies fare in a multi-round game of Prisoner's Dilemma, and how it relates to why society sucks now.
Your ideas needed... Pricing seems a simple problem, at least if a human can be in the loop but how can a massive network of simple nodes (think ants) come up with pricing based on a handful of those nodes and not let crafty humans or AIs game the system?
This is a fantastic, quick little game-slash-educational tool that teaches you about game theory and trust (and tests your knowledge of it). Highly recommend giving it a go! https://ncase.me/trust/
It’s in your browser, and you don’t need to be a gamer to enjoy this. Also great for kids, I reckon. #GameTheory
In a time of income inequality and ruthless politics, people with outsized power or an unrelenting willingness to browbeat others often seem to come out ahead....
What situation/game describes when a significant majority of people hold one opinion, but none are willing to step up for fear of personal repression, lacking a critical mass?
Is there a name for when an optimal strategy is avoided because the optimal strategy is easily defended against when you know the person is using it in the first place?
Or the reverse, where someone might intentionally use a very poor strategy specifically because the user would never expect a user to pick a poor strategy and thus, at least when assumed it wont be used, becomes a strong strategy?
Help! How can an autonomous p2p network set the price for storing data? (safenetforum.org)
Your ideas needed... Pricing seems a simple problem, at least if a human can be in the loop but how can a massive network of simple nodes (think ants) come up with pricing based on a handful of those nodes and not let crafty humans or AIs game the system?
What game theory can teach us about standing up to bullies (phys.org)
In a time of income inequality and ruthless politics, people with outsized power or an unrelenting willingness to browbeat others often seem to come out ahead....