I haven't seen so much effort put into a set in years. This would decent if it wasn't so damn propogandistic. Of course the message is "communism hates science".

From the Netflix science-fiction series Three Body Problem

  • dat_math [they/them]
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    4 months ago

    Game theorists really sound like some pseudo science shit

    When it's taken out of its original context, understanding the behavior of perfectly rational risk-minimizers in systems of rules, it usually is pseudo science shit.

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      understanding the behavior of perfectly rational risk-minimizers in systems of rules

      Which doesn't actually exist anyway biden-point

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Is there a context in which the concept of a "perfectly rational risk minimizer" is a useful construct to explore?

      • dat_math [they/them]
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        4 months ago

        Absolutely! It's very useful in communications theory. I'm thinking specifically of MIMO networks, in which game theory can be useful to find resource (ie power) allocations that allow the best power/channel capacity tradeoff. Here, the agents are nodes in a communication network, and the risk is how much power they spend to put signals into the network. Game theory is important in this kind of comm. problem because the optimal policy for any individual node's power allocation depends on the strategies of the nodes they're communicating with.