Friday, February 06, 2004
Here is a post about game theory that wil baude linked to.
(ok, the post i am responding to was not the post will linked to, which was the insane preference posse post. but will does write about game theory at times.)
Here is what i commented:
mad when I showed him that I could model the formation of a C60 buckyball using the principles involved in an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Regime... heh
I think that has potential to be a publishable paper, especially if you can write it in layperson's terms. I haven't reviewed the literature to know if anybody else is using game theory this way.
Game theory is, or might be, an aspect of systems theory. People/scientists often do a lot of work applying systems theory to one particular discipline,without seeing that the model has applications to other disciplines.
The same people who rail against georgia for not wanting to teach evolution, are often the same people who don't want the schools to teach how markets work, although from a systems theory point of view, markets are like ecosystems.
Memetics has been a valuable development of applying evolutionary concepts to cultural rather than biological evolution.
I'm not a chemist or physicist or whatever you are. I'm a policy wonk (and lawyer.) One of the common fallacies i run into in discussion of public policy is that people expect governments to act rationally, instead of responding to stimuli in the way that public choice theory sugegsts.
Game theory is very useful in describing how governments function. If you can show that atoms' behavior can also be described in game theory terms, that helps show that governments need not be thought of as rational, in order to evalute stategies governments use.
Posted by: aardvark,arbitrary, the at February 6, 2004 07:15 PM
(ok, the post i am responding to was not the post will linked to, which was the insane preference posse post. but will does write about game theory at times.)
Here is what i commented:
mad when I showed him that I could model the formation of a C60 buckyball using the principles involved in an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Regime... heh
I think that has potential to be a publishable paper, especially if you can write it in layperson's terms. I haven't reviewed the literature to know if anybody else is using game theory this way.
Game theory is, or might be, an aspect of systems theory. People/scientists often do a lot of work applying systems theory to one particular discipline,without seeing that the model has applications to other disciplines.
The same people who rail against georgia for not wanting to teach evolution, are often the same people who don't want the schools to teach how markets work, although from a systems theory point of view, markets are like ecosystems.
Memetics has been a valuable development of applying evolutionary concepts to cultural rather than biological evolution.
I'm not a chemist or physicist or whatever you are. I'm a policy wonk (and lawyer.) One of the common fallacies i run into in discussion of public policy is that people expect governments to act rationally, instead of responding to stimuli in the way that public choice theory sugegsts.
Game theory is very useful in describing how governments function. If you can show that atoms' behavior can also be described in game theory terms, that helps show that governments need not be thought of as rational, in order to evalute stategies governments use.
Posted by: aardvark,arbitrary, the at February 6, 2004 07:15 PM
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