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It's pretty standard game theory. If there are 3 teams, and one team starts to gain an advantage, the other two are highly incentivized to join forces to defea
by 0xfae 3y ago
It's pretty standard game theory.
If there are 3 teams, and one team starts to gain an advantage, the other two are highly incentivized to join forces to defeat the larger one.
Unless you design systems to allow smaller teams/parties/groups to flourish, most competitions will devolve into two sides. In voting this would be things like ranked choice or approval voting, rather than single vote "first past the post".
- mikhailfranco 3y agoThe board game Diplomacy is the classic example of multiplayer competition, where there is explicit negotiation of alliances and the possibility of trust and betrayal at every turn. P.S. Recent success with AI for Diplomacy at DeepMind: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/ai-for-the-board-game-diplomacy https://www.deepmind.com/blog/ai-for-the-board-game-diplomac...