drc500free comments on Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drc500free 18 October 2010 03:11:15AM *  7 points [-]

Humans are really bad at acting according to an ideal, random strategy. See:

Wine in front of me - A term from the game Mafia, describing infinitely layered thinking, based on recursive predictions of an opponent's predictions.

Yomi (mind reading) - David Sirlin discusses the ability to predict non-ideal trends in an opponent's behavior, and how infinite layers of predictions actually repeat and only require a limited and finite set to consider.