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JakobVirgil  ·  3919 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Actual prisoners more likely to cooperate in Prisoner's Dilemma

I don't think I have seen a study where Nash's predicted results have ever happened.

Maybe we should stop using game theory?





JakobVirgil  ·  3919 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I feel compelled to tell you that if you bothered to read Samuelson's Learning to be Imperfect you would understand that in games with noise any equilibrium is stable.

JakobVirgil  ·  3919 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have read it (it is very good) but I fail to understand if how that realization makes game theory useful.

coffeesp00ns  ·  3918 days ago  ·  link  ·  

... did you just have a conversation with yourself? or was this some sort of meta that I'm missing.

JakobVirgil  ·  3918 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was doing both sides of the game theory conversation.

It is little bit of a sick joke.

What it comes down to is that game theory does not need to be debunked because it has never been bunked. There is nothing empirical to back it up.

user-inactivated  ·  3916 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In that sense there's nothing empirical to back up group theory either, but that hardly makes group theory uninteresting.

coffeesp00ns  ·  3918 days ago  ·  link  ·  

gotcha. now I know!!

am_Unition  ·  3918 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I guess I could see where he was adding on to his earlier comments, but

Edit: ...you can use the edit button

Edit2: ...ad nauseam.

user-inactivated  ·  3918 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We are very polite to each other on hubski, my goodness.

PS:

    I don't think I have seen a study where Nash's predicted results have ever happened.

Neither have I.