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Nobel For Game Theory
Topic Started: Oct 10 2005, 11:34 AM (35 Views)
cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
2 share economics Nobel for work on game theory.

Game theory can be applied to Survivor, its host said years ago. I think it can be applied to forums.

The one, Schelling, how in a game you can strengthen your position by worsening your options and that retaliation os often more useful than resistance.

Easy to example (heard on radio). Take the MIL problem. Terrorists have taken you hostage. Who would you prefer to have plead and bargain your case? Your dear mother who loves you or mother in law who hates you.

The other, Aumann, shows how cooperation is easier to sustain in a long-term relationship than a brief encounter.

That has clear implications about how you deal with a forum.
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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tomdrobin
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cmoehle
Oct 10 2005, 05:34 PM
Terrorists have taken you hostage. Who would you prefer to have plead and bargain your case? Your dear mother who loves you or mother in law who hates you.

I would like in that case to have exlosives implanted in my body. Gather round boys, and get some of your own medicine.
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Lose-lose.
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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