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To: LindyBill who wrote (50462)10/9/2002 10:16:16 AM
From: zonder  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
With all due respect, you are in no position to "think" Game Theory "gets into human interactions" but cannot be used for "common good" problems, unless you have done serious studies on these matters and possibly earned a Nobel Prize along the way, like the guy who thought up Game Theory (Nash) did.

Game Theory is all about common good. It is about how individually sound strategies can lead to situations where both sides can find themselves worse off than when they started.

Example: Police catches two partners in a crime, they question each in a separate room. Whoever confesses and testifies against the other gets two years while the other gets ten years. The best outcome (common good) would be for each to take the 5th and to tell the police to go take a hike. But what happens? Each afraid that the other will tell on him confesses, so that he will get two years rather than ten. So they both get ten years, which, although the result of a sound individualistic strategy, is far from common good.

> I don't like to see it [Game Theory] used to abstract a (...) "God" or "National Honor"

I am trying to understand but nevertheless cannot fathom what you may be talking about here. How can Game Theory be used to "abstract a God or National Honor"? Do you know what it is? Have you even seen the film "A Beautiful Mind"?
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