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Re:Game Theory: Open Access textbook by zoren on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:50PM (#15917005)
In The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues that applying game theory to real life situations is one instance of the ludic fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy
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Re:Game Theory: Open Access textbook by VHRanger on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @06:01PM (#15918517)
Fair warning: N. Taleb is more or less an anti-intellectual. He hates on most formal models he didn't write himself and most of his books are musings on heuristics.
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