No one expects the Bavarian Illuminati

[hirez]

In re. the Adam Curtis programme: It's nice to be right

Comments

[steer]

I rather enjoy game theory myself though I need to gain a better understanding. I am not convinced by it as a tool for understanding human behaviour. But as a method for finding optimal solutions for some problems arising from system behaviour it has merit.

[quercus]

Game theory is a method for understanding human behaviour, when the humans in question are Nash, Von Neumann and Hilbert.

[hirez]

Quite so. The argument seemed to be that it worked well when considering a game of poker, but spectacularly failed to scale.

The other problem is that now it's been applied (in Prisoner's Dilemma form) to much human endeavor, we're applying it ourselves and thus acting like a mob of self-fulfilling shitehawks.