#BraessParadox - #Equilibria Gone Wild

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cALezV_Fwi0&ab_channel=UpandAtom

#DietrichBraess #Braess #Math #maths #Mathematics #TownPlanning #UrbanPlanning #RoadPlanning #RoadManagement #Traffic #TrafficManagement #Maps #Map #Mapping #NashEquilibrium #Selfishness #Choice #CollectiveIntelligence #GameTheory #Physics #Jade

https://nonzerosum.games is a site full of beautifully illustrated games and essays about patterns of behavior by @nonzerosumjames It's with an aim to help us all find better patterns with each other :)

Horny lizards trying to get their bags off a luggage carousel? Crabs helping each other get out a bucket? 3D tetris with a 2D representation?

Have fun and get a crash course in #gameTheory on the side.

#narcissists have simple scalar qualities like secretiveness, deceptiveness, guilt, self-awareness, cynicism...

And all the lingo of the "science" lends itself to DND: "grandiose narcissist", "communal narcissist", "covert narcissist"...

Party A tries to deceive party B...

Throw in a few "empaths"?

Find equilibria...?

Important: I know almost nothing about gameplay.

#narcissist #dnd #gametheory #nixon

I replicated a #poll a few days ago about a #gameTheory/social experiment where people have to choose between a red and blue pill (not with a #Matrix-like effect, though).

If you take the red pill, you live, whatever happens but unless more than 50% of the participants choose blue, all people choosing blue will die.

See the original poll here: https://fediscience.org/@tfardet/110892877004029359

This gave interesting results (even if I only got around 90 votes) and discussions that I'd like to sum up in this thread.

1/N

Interstate service station restaurant service worker has to be THE WORST job.

All the normal service work problems PLUS a non-iterated Prisoners' Dilemma, so there'll be lots of defectors from the norms of society.

#gametheory #math

I look to #GameTheory .

Quitting #FossilFuels right now would, in fact, be bad for the global economy. Just think, eg, of all the people still paying off loans on their ICE-cars, who wake up tomorrow to find that gasoline is no longer available at any price, and their cars are now less than worthless? And a thousand similar wrenching changes to people and businesses.

But that's actually the best-case, if the whole world quits together.

What if just Germany quits, unilaterally? Or Canada? Or even the US?

Then that country's economy crashes alone, and the rest of the world reaps a benefit, because fossil fuel prices would actually go down, thanks to the decrease in demand.

Every leader on Earth has been aware of this conundrum, one way or another, for 40+ years. Every leader keeps waiting for someone else to take the plunge first.

And we lemmings march on.

I look to #GameTheory .

Quitting #FossilFuels right now would, in fact, be bad for the global economy. Just think, eg, of all the people still paying off loans on their ICE-cars, who wake up tomorrow to find that gasoline is no longer available at any price, and their cars are now less than worthless? And a thousand similar wrenching changes to people and businesses.

But that's actually the best-case, if the whole world quits together.

What if just Germany quits, unilaterally? Or Canada? Or even the US?

Then that country's economy crashes alone, and the rest of the world reaps a benefit, because fossil fuel prices would actually go down, thanks to the decrease in demand.

Every leader on Earth has been aware of this conundrum, one way or another, for 40+ years. Every leader keeps waiting for someone else to take the plunge first.

And we lemmings march on.

I have always been drawn to the idea of building fantastic worlds with fractal complexity; the more you look, the more you see. Witnessing the advancement of LLM capabilities and reading papers like "Simulacra of Human Behavior" truly piqued my interest in exploring the idea of creating generative worlds.

After a few weeks of work, Morgan Rivers and I developed Yoasi, a Generative LLM-Based Universe Builder. Yoasi draws on ideas from agent-based modeling, generative AI, the philosophical branch of practical reasoning, game theory, and my passion for storytelling. Currently, it allows developers to input Python files containing descriptions of agents and environments. Users can then initiate their simulations and read the logs produced by the software to delve into the lives of the agents within this universe.

Continue reading here: https://techforgoodresearch.substack.com/p/yoasi-a-generative-llm-based-universe

#ai #gametheory #llm

My #GameTheory "Pascal's Wager" perspective on the #ClimateCrisis

Saw a toot about "pretending it's hopeless is equally bad as pretending everything's fine, we can solve it if we just do it, yada".

Naturally, I'm a doomer.

And no, we actually don't know if we can solve this ... and frankly, if history is any guide, the odds don't look good (hence, my lean towards doomerism).

But, sans the"rah-rah" optimism ... that is actually the optimal path to pursue.

*Assume* that we can still fix it, and then devote as much time/energy as you can spare, towards helping.

Maybe we can't fix it, and all your efforts will be in vain. That is quite possible.

But maybe we could have fixed it, and ultimately, it was you saying 'fuck it' and sitting around on your ass, that pushed us over the brink.

A friend has sent me a poll that I naively considered at first to be just a bad example of #gameTheory but that I now find to be quite interesting from a #social and #psychology perspective. See below for a 2nd variant of the poll.

People will be presented with a choice between a red and a blue pill. If more than 50% choose the blue pill, no one dies. If not, those who took a blue pill die, those who chose red live.

Which pill do you choose ? (You cannot discuss with the others)

1/2

Mi piace scegliere un brano musicale che riesca a cogliere le emozioni di fondo che hanno accompagnato un progetto, soprattutto quando il progetto implica scrivere codice, per me sempre un modo di generare vita e di sentirmi vivere.
Per GenAgents ho scelto questo.
—[music credit: Nick Drake, Time of No Reply]
#coding #sociology #gametheory #psychology

Wave equation, beta radiation beam
Quadrophonic gin and tonic fever dream
Cell-disrupting, will-corrupting vertigo
Exponential, existential horror show
#TheLoudFamily #GameTheory #ScottMiller #MathRock #IndieMusic
https://youtu.be/BLpatcRv01k

So I bought this book about algorithmic game theory about a year ago and finally got around to cracking it open... And discovered a book about physics inside.🤦🙄

#algorithms #gametheory #igotscammed

New release of Nashpy (v0.0.39). It now includes an implementation of linear programming based on the minimax theorem for Zero sum games: https://nashpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/how-to/use-minimax.html

#gametheory

4th year med students now get a limited number of "signals" to indicate interest in residency programs when vying for interviews. Each specialty sets a max number of signals applicants can use. At #AAFPNC I learned that Family Medicine allocates 5 per applicant -- much lower than most other specialties -- to try to ensure programs will interview students who didn't spend a signal to apply. (Before this year, students advised to apply to 15-20, but most students applied to 30-60!)
#GameTheory

It's probably some kind of insider joke when game theory economists drop two pages of dense math, followed by "clearly, we can see that...".

#Economics #GameTheory

@rayckeith

You need to add #GameTheory to your hashtags there.

Quite enjoyed Labuschagne's interview yesterday. Asked: are you playing for the win tomorrow?

Manus: wat you talking about m8? Set a target then bowl England out tomorrow? In a day. With rain? And we're 2/1 up? When we can just bat out and retain the Ashes? #cricket #ashes #gametheory

https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricket-videos/labuschagne-for-australia-its-all-about-retaining-the-ashes-1388925

:Strattzr: @Strattzr is the chief strategist of the :GLHF: Gamer Legion of Hasty Foxes – he'll kick your ass in chess! ♟️

When you see him standing still and motionless, he's not daydreaming – he's most likely determining which of the 50,000 moves he's calculated will best overthrow your competition! :StrattzrThink:

Truly living up to the cunning trickery of foxes! 🦊 #OC #Fox #Foxes #Gaming #Gamer #Game #VideoGame #VR #VirtualReality #AugmentedReality #GameTheory #GLHF #GamerLegionOfHastyFoxes

After lurking for a few days, it’s time for an #introduction!

I’m an #antimicrobialresistance researcher based in Oxford. I specialise in stochastic & evolutionary #gametheory, #informationtheory, & #statistics in general. Those have cool applications to #innovation, #biology, #finance, & #geopolitics – which conveniently are also interests of mine!

In my spare time, I’m mostly improvising (on a piano, on stage & in life), staring at generative art, or geeking out on American football plays.