Theory meets reality?
Fast Company on Game Theory. Be interesting to see if people manage to come up with real refutations...
posted by steve at 4:58 pm
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Friday, February 18, 2005
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3 Comments:
some genial discoveries are staggering statements of the obvious - that were always there, unnoticed, untill a keen mind exposed them.
In some aspects that's what happens in game theory, and then extrapolations, further theorization, calculations, probabilities... a schizophrenic persuit of complicating the simple!
I tend to agree with what one of the experts says: the idea is so simple it's more of a frame of mind - you can see it everywhere.
What an absurd waste of time otherwise...!
some genial discoveries are staggering statements of the obvious - that were always there, unnoticed, untill a keen mind exposed them.
In some aspects that's what happens in game theory, and then extrapolations, further theorization, calculations, probabilities... a schizophrenic persuit of complicating the simple!
I tend to agree with what one of the experts says: the idea is so simple it's more of a frame of mind - after that you can see it everywhere; unmeasured.
What an absurd waste of time otherwise...!
True - but still making the leap to comprehesion can be a feat. There are quite a few non-intuitive results in the game theory literature (always defecting being the best policy in N iterative prisoners dilema games with know N is maybe the simplest).
Whilst modelling whole systems like this may be impractical, seems it at least occasionally turns up phenomena to go out and try to spot in the wild.
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