Dagon comments on Thomas C. Schelling's "Strategy of Conflict" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dagon 28 July 2009 07:37:14PM *  3 points [-]

I sometimes think of game theory as being roughly divided in three parts, like Gaul. There's competitive zero-sum game theory, there's cooperative game theory, and there are games where players compete but also have some shared interest

Almost all human interactions are the third type. In fact, I think of this not as 3 parts, but as one thing - strategy, which has (at least) 2 special cases that have been studied: zero-sum and cooperative positive-sum. These special cases are interesting not because they occur, but because they illuminate aspects of the whole.