{"id":36711,"date":"2018-11-01T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36711"},"modified":"2018-10-12T10:46:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:46:36","slug":"qotd-game-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/11\/01\/qotd-game-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Game theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cGuys,\u201d he writes. \u201cIt\u2019s time for some game theory.\u201d Game theory, for the uninitiated, is a branch of mathematics that uses computational models to predict the behavior of human beings in potentially conflictual situations. It\u2019s complex, involves a lot of formal logic and algebra, and is mostly useless. Game theory models human actions on the presumption that everyone is constantly trying to maximize their potential gain against everyone around them; this is why its most famous example concerns prisoners \u2014 isolated people, cut off from all the noncompetitive ties that constitute society. One of its most important theoreticians, John Nash, was also a paranoid schizophrenic, who believed himself to be the target of a vast Russian conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Kriss, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2016\/12\/what_the_hell_is_wrong_with_america_s_establishment_liberals.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Rise of the Alt-Center: Why did establishment liberals fall in love with a deranged Twitter thread? It\u2019s time for some game theory&#8221;, <em>Slate<\/em><\/a>, 2016-12-16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGuys,\u201d he writes. \u201cIt\u2019s time for some game theory.\u201d Game theory, for the uninitiated, is a branch of mathematics that uses computational models to predict the behavior of human beings in potentially conflictual situations. It\u2019s complex, involves a lot of formal logic and algebra, and is mostly useless. Game theory models human actions on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41,16],"tags":[967,778],"class_list":["post-36711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","category-science","tag-gametheory","tag-mathematics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9y7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36712,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36711\/revisions\/36712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}