wnoise comments on Swords and Armor: A Game Theory Thought Experiment - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wnoise 12 October 2010 11:17:51AM *  0 points [-]

Green sword and yellow armor.

There is one mixed Nash equilibrium with lopsided majority blue armor, minority green, and nearly even majority green sword, minority yellow. I expect people to be biased more towards handling the majority of the cases.

EDIT: this is using the damage per time as the utility. This decouples the choice of armor and sword so that it's really one 4x4 game where you play both sides. Time for survival would be another reasonable utility, which can be had just by inverting the damage numbers.