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Here is an educational game which describes this in a fun way. http://ncase.me/trust/ http://ncase.me/trust/ I enjoyed going through these scenarios quite a bi

Here is an educational game which describes this in a fun way. http://ncase.me/trust/ http://ncase.me/trust/ I enjoyed going through these scenarios quite a bit. Now with the context of this Uber Dilemma post, it's reinforced further.

saganus 9y ago
Awesome game! I'm guessing game theorists have these kind of tools, albeit more complex ones. DO you know of any of them? I'm sure this has been studied a lot so I'm guessing there are graphs about the different rules and outcomes and such?
adrianpike 9y ago
That's really neat, thanks for the link!
marnett 9y ago
Thanks for sharing this! Loved playing it.
amoorthy 9y ago
So cool, thank you for posting. I shared with my nephew and he loved it. Made game theory really come alive for him. I also became a patron to the author. My first time ever doing so on Patreon. Way to go Nicky Case and please keep up these amazing programs.
stingraycharles 9y ago
How accurate are these simulations compared to the real world ? I understand the reasoning behind it, and it makes sense, but it strucks as an oversimplification of really complex things.
- rdiddly 9y ago
  Kind of inevitable. We're trying to model complex things in a way we can understand, and that necessarily involves simplifying it until it's... simple enough. Simple usually means coarse. If your model is coarse, does that make it invalid? No, but the coarser it is, the less accurate & predictive it is across all values of the inputs.
  - ghaff 9y ago
    It's rather like metaphors. A good metaphor can absolutely aid in communicating and understanding concepts. But, inevitably, if you start probing too hard on the details or take the metaphor too literally and it starts to break down.
traek 9y ago
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864183
- sunsetMurk 9y ago
  That you for posting! Never saw the discussion on here, or knew how many awesome things nCase has created.
ATsch 9y ago
It's worth playing every single game Nick Case has ever made. Incredibly though provoking and makes you feel very different about the issues by actually involving you. I think there have been few pieces of media that emotionally impacted more than Nick's work. This is, what I feel like realizing the full potential of moderm media looks like. Some links: EDIT: I should have probably also mentioned the fact that the Author has made a site collecting these types of sites: http://explorabl.es/ http://explorabl.es/ WE BECOME WHAT WE BEHOLD – a truly shocking game about mass media: https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb Coming out Simulator: https://ncase.itch.io/coming-out-simulator-2014 https://ncase.itch.io/coming-out-simulator-2014 The most famous one, Parable of the Polygons: http://ncase.me/polygons/ http://ncase.me/polygons/ behold the beast! the magnificent 2d matrix!: http://ncase.me/matrix/ http://ncase.me/matrix/ NEUROTIC NEURONS: http://ncase.me/neurons/ http://ncase.me/neurons/
- Trundle 9y ago
  His writing is pretty solid as well.
- gfodor 9y ago
  Wow, is there a genre or something for things like this? Seems like a pretty novel medium for expressing non-trivial idaes.
  - ATsch 9y ago
    Yes, as mentioned these are commonly called explorables. https://reddit.com/r/explorables https://reddit.com/r/explorables http://explorabl.es http://explorabl.es http://explorables.cmucreatelab.org http://explorables.cmucreatelab.org
xiaoma 9y ago
The animations and laughter are absolutely fantastic. They make a relatively mundane subject far more engaging.

saganus 9y ago

Awesome game! I'm guessing game theorists have these kind of tools, albeit more complex ones. DO you know of any of them? I'm sure this has been studied a lot so I'm guessing there are graphs about the different rules and outcomes and such?

adrianpike 9y ago

That's really neat, thanks for the link!

marnett 9y ago

Thanks for sharing this! Loved playing it.

amoorthy 9y ago

So cool, thank you for posting. I shared with my nephew and he loved it. Made game theory really come alive for him. I also became a patron to the author. My first time ever doing so on Patreon. Way to go Nicky Case and please keep up these amazing programs.

stingraycharles 9y ago

How accurate are these simulations compared to the real world ? I understand the reasoning behind it, and it makes sense, but it strucks as an oversimplification of really complex things.

rdiddly 9y ago
Kind of inevitable. We're trying to model complex things in a way we can understand, and that necessarily involves simplifying it until it's... simple enough. Simple usually means coarse. If your model is coarse, does that make it invalid? No, but the coarser it is, the less accurate & predictive it is across all values of the inputs.
- ghaff 9y ago
  It's rather like metaphors. A good metaphor can absolutely aid in communicating and understanding concepts. But, inevitably, if you start probing too hard on the details or take the metaphor too literally and it starts to break down.

traek 9y ago

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864183

sunsetMurk 9y ago
That you for posting! Never saw the discussion on here, or knew how many awesome things nCase has created.

ATsch 9y ago

It's worth playing every single game Nick Case has ever made. Incredibly though provoking and makes you feel very different about the issues by actually involving you. I think there have been few pieces of media that emotionally impacted more than Nick's work. This is, what I feel like realizing the full potential of moderm media looks like. Some links: EDIT: I should have probably also mentioned the fact that the Author has made a site collecting these types of sites: http://explorabl.es/ http://explorabl.es/ WE BECOME WHAT WE BEHOLD – a truly shocking game about mass media: https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb Coming out Simulator: https://ncase.itch.io/coming-out-simulator-2014 https://ncase.itch.io/coming-out-simulator-2014 The most famous one, Parable of the Polygons: http://ncase.me/polygons/ http://ncase.me/polygons/ behold the beast! the magnificent 2d matrix!: http://ncase.me/matrix/ http://ncase.me/matrix/ NEUROTIC NEURONS: http://ncase.me/neurons/ http://ncase.me/neurons/

Trundle 9y ago
His writing is pretty solid as well.
gfodor 9y ago
Wow, is there a genre or something for things like this? Seems like a pretty novel medium for expressing non-trivial idaes.
- ATsch 9y ago
  Yes, as mentioned these are commonly called explorables. https://reddit.com/r/explorables https://reddit.com/r/explorables http://explorabl.es http://explorabl.es http://explorables.cmucreatelab.org http://explorables.cmucreatelab.org

xiaoma 9y ago

The animations and laughter are absolutely fantastic. They make a relatively mundane subject far more engaging.