roystgnr comments on For the game theorists out there... - Less Wrong

8 Post author: CronoDAS 13 June 2011 08:55PM

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Comment author: roystgnr 14 June 2011 09:53:56PM 1 point [-]

You and DanielLC are right, however:

Just because a game is isomorphic to a symmetric problem doesn't mean that it is a symmetric problem. "Scissors cut Paper wraps Rock smashes Scissors" has an equivalent formalism to "Policeman arrests Murderer kills Mayor bosses Policeman" but I'd bet with the latter (played as a single-round game) you'd see some very different game play in practice.

So what CronoDAS needs isn't a game theorist, it's a psychologist.