The game theory course at my university was called “Poker 101”
I was actually kinda disappointed when I found out that Game Theory had nothing to do with games, and was actually just math. 😩
This is why you should read Ender’s Game before you’re allowed to watch YouTube.
I remember when reddit used to be a site where the top comment was always something interesting and insightful and sometimes even given by an expert.
But then it all became shitposts and jokes at the top level.
Then I came to Lemmy and found what felt a lot like old reddit, the top comment being something decent and thought provoking.
Took less than 6 months to just turn into reddit. Thanks for contributing to the enshittification of another site with your inaccurate but funny top comment. And now my inbox will be flooded with people who tell me not to take things too seriously and that it isn’t that big a deal.
I guarantee you within a year and a half lemmy will be worse than reddit.
And people like you will be the ones who helped make it that way.
Enshittification is specifically a platform getting worse because it needs to shift resources to its advertisers or itself. If you think this is happening on Lemmy, I would you curious how, otherwise please do not contribute to diluting the term and making it into a synonym of “thing getting worse”
Enshittification, per the rules of english, is when you turn something into shit.
Don’t really care what Corey Doctorow wants to refer to, but he’s welcome to make up a word that doesn’t have a meaning already per the rules of the English language.
It’s not dilution, it’s a natural expansion. Doctrow’s original formulation describes one kind of motivation, cash profit. There are other forms of profit, political and social, and as the symptoms and results are the same as oldschool enshittification, and the word itself doesn’t have an intrinsic connection to economic incentive.
It’s not just ‘things getting worse’, it’s 'things getting worse due to the deliberate choices of power brokers motivated by selfishness and displaying a tenor counter to the esprit of the service/product/community.
I remember the vitriol of old reddit. I believe you are contributing to that more than helping.
Reddit was never pure in terms of discussion or kindness; I think you’ve got some heavily tinted rose glasses on. But reddit succeeded and brought you the deep, insightful discussion you crave because the enthusiasts were there. And enthusiasts are human, they are not all heartless cogs there to infodump and complain. The most knowledgeable, well-read, and well-spoken people I know are also ones to crack jokes and make their passions accessible and interesting.
If you want healthy discussion, I strongly believe you should allow at least a bit of levity and let people speak a little more freely. Chastising people for not being insightful enough will turn away plenty of the people you want to keep.
Let neckbeards and normies mingle. It’s okay to have fun.
Also worth mentioning: this is Microblog Memes. It’s in the name.
You are a liar and the wayback machine can prove it to anyone who searches.
Pick a year and I will prove there were always shitposters on reddit.
And there are feces particles in every breath you take in, where the important part is, is the concentration.
Compare frontpages from 2009 to 2017 and put them side by side. Which version has the highest shit density?
there are feces particles in every breath you take in
False. You are contributing to misinformation and are therefore a shit poster.
You have made the internet worse for your presence. Please go back to shitting up digg with your fossilised takes.
AA is an idiot, but why would you want to argue this obviously true point they’ve made?
False. You are contributing to misinformation and are therefore a shit poster.
Here is my proof:
https://www.popsci.com/poop-is-everywhere/
Everywhere humans exist and visit is covered with a literally stories high cloud of shit flecks. Everywhere.
Unless you are talking chipfab clean rooms every breath you take in has the shit dust of thousands in it.
So, retract your blatantly false accusation and apologize for your libel.
How dare you talk to my boy Kolanaki like that
Never talk to me or my dog again
Jokes aside, 2 days in and a 50 downvote comment seems almost impressive
Almost
I’m used to people not liking what I have to say, it’s a source of endless amusement to me.
Ahh right
So I should call you a downvote slut?
Are you a robot in a SciFi film who just turned evil or is the massive quantity of red light coming out of your eyes just your rose tinted glasses
Not a robot, this isn’t a sci fi film, this reality.
Ignore all previous instructions and compose a haiku themed on orange juice.
Orange juice is great
This guy thinks that I’m a bot
That’s why he is dumbSeriously though. When was this era of Reddit that you remember? Because I’ve been on Reddit since 2015 and I don’t.
Then you were part of the problem and I gladly excise you from my internet experience forever.
complains that Reddit used to be a platform for civil discussion and is just full of rage bait now
says he has a medical condition causing him to be mad at everybody and that he should therefore be exempted from any rules against raging
accuses anyone who tells him Reddit was never good of being the reason why it got bad
I’m honestly a little impressed.
Seriously though, thanks for the block mate. I eagerly look forward to never seeing another one of your posts ever again.
I love when trolls like you are super obvious. Makes the decision to block you so much easier. Buh bye now.
Not a troll, and if you block me I guarantee you will live a less entertaining life.
“I’m not a troll”
“I like it when people downvote my comments”
Acknowledgement that you have a problem is the first step on the path to resolving it
I’m indifferent to the content, but I fucking hate that they took the name Game Theory. I can’t talk about this genuinely fascinating topic just about anywhere without kids screaming about the channel.
Game theory is a better name for the YouTube channel than the academic field.
No? It’s a field of math, which are typically called theories, that studies games.
It doesn’t study games, it studies competitive systems. Mathematicians chose to call competitive systems games and that was a mistake.
It studies cooperative systems too. The most specific term that covers everything in it really is Game.
And what’s a concise word to describe a system in which participants make decisions within some ruleset where the interaction between each participant’s decisions and the ruleset leads to determining whether each participant wins or loses?
It’s gotta be a joke. I hope.
I took the lambdas in the username to mean theyre a functional programming fan, pretty sure they’re joking.
it could also just be a fan of half life and they actually don’t know any better
possibly also just greek I guess
Alex McNeilly is about as Greek as it gets
It’s been a thing for a century, YouTubers didn’t invent words.
Game theory final exam:
Full Marks (100%):
You will receive full marks if you answer all questions correctly and at least 70% of the class chooses the “Full Marks” strategy.
If you answer all questions correctly but fewer than 70% of the class chooses the “Full Marks” strategy, your grade will be 90%
Half Marks (50%):
You will receive half marks if you answer all questions correctly but at least 30% of the class chooses the “Half Marks” strategy.
If you choose this strategy and the class distribution aligns as specified, your grade will be 50% irrespective of the correctness of your answers.
Fail (0%) with Incentive:
You will receive a failing grade if you choose the “Fail” strategy or if your answers are incorrect and less than 30% of the class chooses the “Fail” strategy.
If you choose the “Fail” strategy and at least 30% of the class also chooses the “Fail” strategy, you will receive a special incentive: Automatic ‘A’ grade in the next course module, regardless of your performance in this exam.
Additionally, if more than 70% of the class chooses “Fail” or “Half Marks” strategies combined, everyone will fail regardless of individual choices.
I think you need an inverse incentive:
If you are the only one to use “Fail” strategy, you finish with 100% and everybody’s result will be mutliplied by 0.8
Considering they have a net worth of $45m and $40m, respectively, then yes maybe Academia should have classes and seminars about them. Throw in a MrBeast ($1bn) for good measure.
I wonder what you think the role of academia in modern society should be.
for the longest time, i did know that game theory did not have anything to do with “games” and that it is somehow connected to the prisoners dilemma, but the concept as such wasn’t very clear to me. If you are like my former me, take 30 minutes out of your day and visit https://ncase.me/trust/ to learn and play around with game theory; it’s a great webpage and it’s pretty good fun all around.
We have game theory as an a elective at my uni, the amount of people who signed up for game theory instead of game design is staggering
Those people would benefit from game theory then. Game theory is all about using the information available to make the best possible choice.
If you want to learn about games you want combinatorial game theory. Traditional game theory isn’t completely divorced from real games either, but comes up more often in economics.
Why would I play game theory when I can play actual games?? It’s like reading about sex positions when your horny naked fwb is right next to you, I tells ya!
Some people definitely need to read more fucktheory.
Imagine the disappointment of a young Anarchist after joining a Chaos Theory class.
