> People who play games tend to have a pretty loose grasp on the real world. Don't lose track of the two senses of "game" being used. The original post only m

> People who play games tend to have a pretty loose grasp on the real world. Don't lose track of the two senses of "game" being used. The original post only mentioned game theory, and you complained "To operate at the game level of abstraction is sociopathic." When we speak of the game abstraction in game theory, we are not talking about amusements. The term for the concept comes from the study of amusements, but in the context of game theory, a game is merely a situation where at least two participants make strategic decisions that effect each others' outcomes, potentially in the face of incomplete knowledge. In this sense, "People who play games" are people who make mutual decisions which affect themselves and others.