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Re:Death by nazgulnarsil on Thursday August 21, 2008 @01:46AM (#282372)
game theory wouldn't be interesting if it was the study of the actions of perfect bayesian reasoners. that's the whole point, studying where we DON'T make the purely rational choice and why. Exposing cognitive bias is very important for every field of science.
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Re:Death by bOR_ on Thursday August 21, 2008 @03:38AM (#282455)
Then I might just have been unlucky with the game theory talks that I've heard. Most dealt with endless variants of the prisoners dilemma: in space, non-absolute, stochastic, with and without memory.

All seemed a bit too abstract for what we would actually encounter irl

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