Cosmos comments on Science: Do It Yourself - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 16 February 2011 09:36:32PM *  2 points [-]

I'm honestly a little surprised that poker hasn't gotten more attention here. Half the game is managing emotional bias and modeling others' internal state, and the other half is pure statistics. It's like a beautiful little microcosm of applied rationality.

Comment author: Cosmos 18 February 2011 06:54:21AM 0 points [-]

FWIW, the LW NYC group holds regular game nights, and uses poker specifically as a rationality training ground. If you make the correct EV decisions, the pure statistics really will get you a long way. The rest, well...