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Anthropic Decision Theory

Monday, December 5, 2011

In cosmology, a branch of physics which seeks to understand the genesis, structural formation, evolution, and potential destruction of the universe, there is a strange logical loop hole proposed to account for how vastly improbable the existence of the universe is, called the Anthropic Principle. Roughly, the Anthropic Principle states that the universe formed and [...]

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Game Theory & The Occupy Movement

Saturday, October 22, 2011

The global Occupy Movement in its current incarnation can be characterised quite accurately in terms of a War of Attrition, to use evolutionary game theoretic terms. At the starting point of evolutionary game theory, the first game analysed by Maynard Smiths was called Hawk and Dove. In this game, two contestants vie over a sharable [...]

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Best. Game. Ever.

Friday, July 29, 2011

I used to be really into a good ‘ol game of chess. I still am, I suppose. But it got old. There’s only so many possibilities — Shannon’s number gives the lower bound to be only 103, to be precise, and the upper bound has been calculated at less than 2155, which is less than [...]

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