According to this article on the Prisoner's Dilemma, "A New Way To Think About Rules To Live By," by Carl Sagan ( Read more... )

i have found that serious intimacy often breaks down severely with more than six or seven people in a group, unless there is some seriously heroic level of commitment to structured cooperation. i have always conceived of this immediate level of social grouping as a "hearth," in the context of a home, as a vital creative center, and with respect to ( Read more... )

x-posted in part from a flame war in polyamory

although there are really quite a few people out there who just don't like to do math... the understanding and implementation of game theory does require a certain degree of mathematical familiarity (even if only on an intuitive level), and some people just don't like to do any sort of number-crunching... ( Read more... )