Game theory is actually very cold and mathematical and doesn't actually have to focus on people at all. It simply assumes that any agent in the system, given an understanding about what benefits it gets from each action, selects the action that has the chance to create the best benefit. It's a study of how local decisions create global states, nothing more.
-- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime > Yes thats because my assertion was wrong. I got confused about what > dislike about Game > Theory. I probably dont understand it well enough to correct myself, I > just dont think > social darwinism completely explains behaviour, and I thought that often > even when game > theory looks at colabborative situations, its cant quite get away from > certain beliefs that > people are really always competing. > > Cheers > > Steve Elbows > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "J. Rhett Aultman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> > >> Yeah...I didn't understand the assertion, either. Game theory >> absolutely >> can be used to demonstrate when multiple parties will collaborate or >> collude. In fact, game theory models explain at what level of personal >> gain a party can be expected to cheat on a collusion. >> >> -- >> Rhett. >> http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime >> http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime >> > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
