• MinusPi (she/they)
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    5 months ago

    I’m indifferent to the content, but I fucking hate that they took the name Game Theory. I can’t talk about this genuinely fascinating topic just about anywhere without kids screaming about the channel.

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        5 months ago

        No? It’s a field of math, which are typically called theories, that studies games.

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          5 months ago

          It doesn’t study games, it studies competitive systems. Mathematicians chose to call competitive systems games and that was a mistake.

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            5 months ago

            It studies cooperative systems too. The most specific term that covers everything in it really is Game.

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            5 months ago

            And what’s a concise word to describe a system in which participants make decisions within some ruleset where the interaction between each participant’s decisions and the ruleset leads to determining whether each participant wins or loses?