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Old 01-17-2009, 10:17 PM  
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Originally Posted by gideongallery View Post
i suggest you reread the travelers dilema

look carefully at Payoff matrix of the dilema when you do that you realize that travelers dilema is infact a non binomial varient of the nash equilibrium

(in the same way as the three gun man solution)



to many people confuse the simplist example (prisoners dilema) with everything nash came up with.

f(n) in a nash equibrium is not limited to f(2).

Hense multi-participant competitions like the 3 gun man solution.
I'm not sure I follow what you are trying to say here.

The point is that observations don't match with what traditional game theory would predict. Unless you start to use interactive epistemology (which is now an off-shoot of game theory) to factor in why people act rationally or non-rationally.

But you originally said that it is impossible to challenge a nash equilibrium because nobody has which is not a correct statement. There are an infinite number of situations where the predictions of game theory (including nash equilibrium) do not match observations regardless of the variations.

But my specialty is naked women, not game theory or the work of Nash.
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