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Obama's Nobel Prize-McCain Stole the Election
Isn’t interesting how all the major TV and cable networks (except balanced FOX), along with all of Hollywood (except Chuck Norris), the entire music industry (except country) all of academia (except economists) and all European Nations (including Canada ;-) are pushing for Obama and the polls are still close?! The Communist News Network (CNN) and ...
Posted to Politics by Ralph7 on July 29, 2008
This article is way off base
Game theory is only as good as the model you base it on. If you don't understand the motivations and goals of the people involved then all the mathematics in the world won't get you the correct conclusions. Robert Wright starts by writing that when Israeli soldiers mistakenly killed a Palestinian woman and two children, that felt to Palestinians ...
Posted to The Earthling by memo on May 21, 2008
Identity Politics and Game Theory
This 'culture war' or 'polarization' or whatever you want to call it is a fabrication of modern American politics. Sure, there are factions and divisions and as you get closer to the poles of the spectra the voices only get louder and angrier. But I refuse to believe that the majority of Americans lie ideologically at the poles, my limited ...
Posted to Politics by Fennbot on May 5, 2008
You're complicating the matter...
No game theory needed, no marriage %, etc... The answer is: men's dating target population grows as they age, women's dating target population shrinks as they age. Let me start with two simple assumptions : 1.(Generally speaking) men will date women aged several years less than them up to their age. 2.(Generally speaking) women will date men ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by conquistador117 on April 11, 2008
Attractive male shortage
The writer makes a case that is not only cogent but one which squares well with a lifetime 0f personal and professional experience. Women generally mature earlier insocial skills. Men/boys tend to be more attuned to doing rather than feeling, and relations with attractive partners of either sex tend to focus on sexual success, a coalition of the ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by genebo on April 11, 2008
"Irrational" prices
As a resonse to you ''The Price is Right'' post, I would point to a very rich literature in game theory. There are people trying to put ''Reputation'' into equations while striking down the idea of ''Pareto Optimality''. Since these companies are still going to be around tomorrow maximizing profit _today_ isn't necessarily the best plan. ...
Posted to The Undercover Economist by tomtemple on March 29, 2008
D &amp; D - Hey, wait a minute...
It appears this author knows little about the game itself other than what he has been told by some entry level player... After playing for years, I joined the United States Army and utilized skills learned in the game for various war game planning. As an adult the usefulness of the game was apparent for teaching various decision making skills. ...
Posted to Hey Wait a Minute by Headdoc on March 12, 2008
D&amp;D - not theatrics or simulation
Frazile's response was fantastic: ''I sincerely doubt that the pioneers of roleplaying used your definition of roleplaying: ''A good role-playing game provides the framework for a unique kind of narrative, a collaborative thought experiment crossed with improvisational theater.'' If they did, they probably would have qualified it - such a game ...
Posted to Hey Wait a Minute by Baltezaar on March 12, 2008
Erik Safge comes off sounding Lame
Erik Safge, and his final attack on Gary Gygax, is as pathetic as the game he professes to be better than TSR's D&D. GURPS? What the hell is that. Garbage. D&D was and is the greatest RPG ever. You feel sorry for those Orcs we had to slaughter for gold and XP's dont you? Why dont you and your liberal ''hommies'' come up with some ...
Posted to Hey Wait a Minute by gllwolf on March 12, 2008
John Nash
I'm not a mathematician, but wasn't the theory proposed by Nash in (at least the film version of) A Beautiful Mind much the same as the principle in this article? That creating just such a nexus (wherein different similarly themed groups go for slightly different portions of a large market, rather than competing with another) make everyone do ...
Posted to Hey Wait a Minute by bulldog_mcgee on January 2, 2008