Questions tagged [game-theory]
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Is the spiral of silence an original game model?
What are the differences between the spiral of silence and the prisoner's dilemma? Can the spiral of silence be skipped, or should it jump only to score points, as in the prisoner's dilemma?
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Is it logical to seek revenge?
People believe revenge or "violence" to be illogical, impractical and immoral; illogical because the "violence" is executed in impulsive rage, impractical because the wheel of &...
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Antiknowledge (as epistemic antigraphs)
So this essay covers the idea of "antisets," which are such as A, B such that A ∪ B = 0 (without A and B being themselves 0). This concept is extended in another essay to talk of antigraphs, ...
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Is game-theoretic semantics in logic more consonant with LEM than ~LEM?
When someone plays a game, they are minded to try, at least, to score points in the game (even if there is no final score but one can simply try for a higher score each time one plays), and often ...
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Is musical formalism a better version of formalism (in the philosophy of mathematics) than game-theoretic formalism?
There is a sense in which it is "true that" in the game of chess, a knight can move in an L-pattern, a queen can move in direct lines from end to end of the board, and pawns turn into queens ...
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Graham Priest's "escape from Hell" puzzle
The gist of the puzzle is that every day, the Devil offers to flip a coin to see if you escape; one loss and you're guaranteed to be stuck forever, but each day the probability of a winning toss ...
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Is there a name for the phenomenon where a system that selects for one quality eventually leads to optimizing that quality at the cost of others?
There's a pattern that pops up in a wide variety of systems - biological, economic, social, etc - and can occur whenever survival and propagation within the system is determined by how well members ...
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Collaboration without communication?
Is there any name for the hypothesis that likely minded actors can build and successfully execute a strategy that leads to their mutual win-win, without having any ability to communicate directly?
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Is there a difference between game sense and game theory? [closed]
Do they mean the same when talking about interdependent decision making.
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How do you estimate a witness reliability who claims to have seen a miracle? Question about miss-rate neglect fallacy [closed]
I'm interested in knowing how you would estimate witness reliability who claims to have seen a miracle in the following case:
Linda says that she met with Santa Claus yesterday. She promises you that ...
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Discussion: Should or should not P(Lying | Human) be above or equal to 0,5?
Condition: An human called X, in this specific case, according to game theory will win the most money and lose the least if applying a lying strategy about event Y happening. If he tells the truth ...
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According to game theory, are people trustworthy? [closed]
According to philosophical presumptions of game theory, are people trustworthy if there are incentives (profit and less loss) involved in lying? And if this question isn't entirely accurate as a ...
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Logical fallacy: Person argues with wrong probability of event, without considering similar events
I know that this is a common error in argumentation that people make, but I don't know if there is a term for it. It's when people argue from an event being remarkable because of its low probability, ...
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How valid is assignment of probabilites when evidence is totally lacking, as in Pascal's Wager?
The SEP article discussing Pascal's Wager states,
Premise 1 presupposes that you should have a probability for God’s existence in the first place. However, perhaps you could rationally fail to ...
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A universal game [closed]
In this question by "metagame" I mean a game which functions to create the rules of a sub-game.
Is there a universal metagame that would allow to create any game (including itself). Such game would ...
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Is quantum indeterminacy inextricable from observation?
I understand uncertainty from a combinatorial and game theoretic perspective, as functions of incomplete or imperfect information, or intractability which is a type of inaccessible information in that ...
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Rational Player in Game Theory
I'm new to the topic and currently only introduced to Normal Form Games. So about this rational player in game theory... I was wondering if the player could still be considered rational by choosing an ...
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Time dynamics of probability (from a game theoretic point of view)
Many commenters on this question about a property of a random 2x2 matrix seem to assume that there is no such thing as a random 2x2 matrix. We are talking here about a matrix with integer or rational ...
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Is there a name for the following gambling fallacy?
I'm writing a paper on the game of blackjack and I'm trying to make a point about how a common player's attitude is a logical/statistical fallacy in the following situation:
When any common person ...
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To Check or not to Check? [closed]
Samuel and Paul make a wager. They want to know if a certain professor held class the day prior when they were absent. The professor is unreachable, though, so they have to ask students from class. If ...
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Are the prisoner's dilemma and game theory relevant to this competitive workplace scenario?
A friend of mine who works as a car sales person recently explained to me how she and her colleagues are paid. They get a very low base salary and make most of their money of off commissions and ...
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