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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm indifferent to the content, but I fucking hate that they took the name Game Theory. I can't talk about this genuinely fascinating topic just about anywhere without kids screaming about the channel.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Game theory is a better name for the YouTube channel than the academic field.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No? It's a field of math, which are typically called theories, that studies games.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't study games, it studies competitive systems. Mathematicians chose to call competitive systems games and that was a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It studies cooperative systems too. The most specific term that covers everything in it really is Game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And what's a concise word to describe a system in which participants make decisions within some ruleset where the interaction between each participant's decisions and the ruleset leads to determining whether each participant wins or loses?