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I'm always looking for interesting and practical uses for game theory.
by bluetwo 10y ago
I'm always looking for interesting and practical uses for game theory.
- chrismealy 10y agoIt's useful for predicting the behavior of game theorists (spectrum auctions, etc).
- Mikeb85 10y agoPoker. Playing poker takes me strait back to micro classes. EV, game theory, all that. It's also useful for describing a whole range of human interactions. Downside - when you realize people are all cynical fucks, and they all behave in a sub-optimal, selfish way.
- postgeographic 10y agoYou need game theory to realise people are shitty?
- baq 10y agono, just to prove it
- botexpert 10y agoGames, and social sciences. It's a branch of maths that formalized a bunch of things and allows lovely proofs for certain interesting settings that economists, sociologists and politologists observe and analyze. Other than that it currently isn't used that much in computer science.
- codingmyway 10y agoGetting all the selfish incentives of stakeholders and attackers to enable and secure something like Bitcoin is the example. Whether it works out in the end or not is an open question. The current blockage could a be a failure of the game theory to predict the short term tactics of miners at the expense of the long term.
- vowelless 10y agoThere is a little bit of game theory in Generative adversarial networks.
- baron816 10y agoNegotiation is a big, practical use of game theory.
- ucaetano 10y agoCompetitive strategy relies largely on game theory. Market entry games, where an incumbent has the option to retaliate or accommodate a new entrant is a classic example. The key aspect in this case (and many others) is one people usually have a hard time grasping: take in account that your opponent is as rational and intelligent as you are, and can predict your actions just as well as you can predict theirs. In other words, it's like playing chess against yourself.