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Sunset
Aug 15, 2005



Are there any experts on Game theory out there? Specifically, involving Nash's equilibrium, and the whole concept of how all players will act in a way to attempt to maximize their own individual success. What happens though if one player foregoes maximizing their own chances in order to try to help the other players instead of themselves in the game. Is this an available option? What happens in Game theory if this choice is made?

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Al Cowens
Aug 11, 2004

by WE B Bourgeois
https://www.google.com/search?q=altruism+in+game+theory

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer
https://www.google.com/search?q=autism+in+game+theory

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
https://www.wired.com/2016/06/people-want-self-driving-cars-save-lives-especially/all/1

quote:

So what kind of god do people want as a chauffeur? The study found most people think driverless should minimize the total number of deaths, even at the expense of the occupants. The respondents stuck to that utilitarian thinking, although some decisions were harder than others. “It seems that from the responses people gave us, saving their coworkers was not a priority,” says Jean-Francois Bonnefon of the Toulouse School of Economics. But overall, “do the greater good” always won, even with children in the car.

That’s great—until the researchers asked people if they’d buy one of these greater good-doing cars for themselves. Not a chance. People want cars that protect them and their passengers at all costs. They think it’s great if everyone else drives an ethical car, but they certainly don’t want one for their family.

Sunset
Aug 15, 2005




Thank you :)

Er, thanks everyone!

Herman Merman
Jul 6, 2008
You don't need to understand game theory to use it you fool, just ask any redditor and/or libertarian

Sunset
Aug 15, 2005




Is it strange that I feel like I would travel/use one of these vehicles, provided the choice that it would save more than it would kill, even if I was in the kill total? There's other people out there that think this way too right? I'm not the only one?

Sunset
Aug 15, 2005



Herman Merman posted:

You don't need to understand game theory to use it you fool, just ask any redditor and/or libertarian

I think I have an understanding of it. It's a concept to help humanity explore why it is so hard to value others over yourself? Or rather, how brave and nice of a thing it is to be willing to give your life in order to help save/preserve a balance of other life, especially if your sacrifice or lack of action only prolongs the hurt. In situations like that the choice of self-sacrifice seems very obvious as the right choice to make, in order to make all the other players whole or happy with the results.

I mean, I'm not advocating for people to do out and give till they're bled dry. I'm just speaking in these specific circumstances here, where specific choices avail themselves to the player(s).

EngineerSean
Feb 9, 2004

by zen death robot

Sunset posted:

What happens though if one player foregoes maximizing their own chances in order to try to help the other players instead of themselves in the game.

Game theory allows for scenarios where you forego immediate gratification in return for a larger total reward, see the iterated prisoner's dilemma.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

Sunset posted:

Is it strange that I feel like I would travel/use one of these vehicles, provided the choice that it would save more than it would kill, even if I was in the kill total? There's other people out there that think this way too right? I'm not the only one?

i also support your riding in a car that wants to kill you

Blahsmack
Oct 25, 2003

buckminster fuller took cold war era logic and i think some of nash's ideas and tried to create a game where the object of the game was to make sure that no one loses and EVERYONE WINS

(Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.)

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Blahsmack posted:

buckminster fuller took cold war era logic and i think some of nash's ideas and tried to create a game where the object of the game was to make sure EVERYONE WINS

(Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.)
And the result? Nothing.

Makes u think.

e: nice domes, though.

Sunset
Aug 15, 2005



Blahsmack posted:

buckminster fuller took cold war era logic and i think some of nash's ideas and tried to create a game where the object of the game was to make sure that no one loses and EVERYONE WINS

(Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.)

That sounds beautiful. It's what I am hoping for. It's what this enchanted little voice keeps telling me is the only way for the game to be won. Listen to the unicorn. Thank you - I'll have to read up on him.

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!
What people need to start doing is raising their children to feel guilty, worthless and like burdens so they think other people are more valuable than them as they grow up.

SirEvelynTremble
Dec 25, 2013

FUCK YOU HITLER
STALINGRAD
ROFLMFAO
Nash was a paranoid schizophrenic and his game theory experiments fell flat on his face when he tried it with secretaries at the Rand corporation.
Instead of double-crossing each other the girls trusted each other and were fair and honest
Pissed Nash off completely

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

EngineerSean posted:

Game theory allows for scenarios where you forego immediate gratification in return for a larger total reward, see the iterated prisoner's dilemma.

In a very myopic view, yes.

AugmentedVision
Feb 17, 2011

by exmarx

wow what a crazy discovery

they should call it something like "not in my rear yard"

Fushigi Yuugi fansub
Jan 20, 2007

BUTT STUFF
i think the op might have brain damage

Horniest Manticore
Nov 23, 2013

Hello, you!
Lipstick Apathy

Sunset posted:

Are there any experts on Game theory out there? Specifically, involving Nash's equilibrium, and the whole concept of how all players will act in a way to attempt to maximize their own individual success. What happens though if one player foregoes maximizing their own chances in order to try to help the other players instead of themselves in the game. Is this an available option? What happens in Game theory if this choice is made?

i don't know about nash equilibrium, but i know about GASH equilibrium

that's some real game theory son!

Sunset
Aug 15, 2005



George Orwell paraphrasing Henry George in The Road to Wigan Pier:

The world is a raft sailing through space with, potentially, plenty of provisions for everybody; the idea that we must all cooperate and see to it that everyone does his fair share of the work and gets his fair share of the provisions seems so blatantly obvious that one would say that no one could possibly fail to accept it unless he had some corrupt motive for clinging to the present system.

From a speech made by Adlai Stevenson to the UN in 1965:

We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave—to the ancient enemies of man—half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all.


I mean... I'd like to email some 3 letter government organizations and try to help them towards a beautiful future here - but I'm just one person. I don't even know how they would react to me trying to communicate with them. Part of me wonders if they are already one step ahead of me. It wouldn't surprise me at all - to the point that I've been expecting that and tailoring my actions accordingly. Sometimes I wonder if the only reason I'm still around is because it's fairly obvious that I'm not really a threat. I guess the only kind of threat that could be implied is a change on a grand scale. I only ever acquired a BA in Sociology, so...not quite sure yet how to go about it, but the interest to help everyone involved is there. It's from the heart. So what would happen if I tried to communicate with the NSA, the FBI, the CIA. Do they have better things to do beyond listening to a harmless dreamer? I'm not sure they would be interested or not - though on the flipside, I don't want to invite harm of any sort.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Horniest Manticore posted:

i don't know about nash equilibrium, but i know about GASH equilibrium

that's some real game theory son!

Money+Attention+Desire Vs interest.

You're loving welcome.

Sunset
Aug 15, 2005



Nauta posted:

i think the op might have brain damage

I was hit on the side of the head while sitting in a middle-swing on a swing set due to a kid sitting on one of the swings to one side of me, who started swinging left and right instead of back and forth. You could be correct, but it was a pretty long time ago, and I feel fairly fine..

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Be the change you wish to see in the *FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*

Sunset
Aug 15, 2005



VendaGoat posted:

Be the change you wish to see in the *FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*

And for that matter - why am I only realizing now that my birthday is on Earth Day, April 22. For some reason I've operated under the assumption that Earth Day was on 4/20, for a very long time. I know what you're thinking and what you're going to say. Don't you dare! :(


But yes, lots of strange things going on lately... Either I'm getting trolled on a massive scale, or there's something silly at work.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Sunset posted:

But yes, lots of strange things going on lately... Either I'm getting trolled on a massive scale, or there's something silly at work.

:lol: if you think you are important enough for some "Grand conspiracy" against you.

Sunset
Aug 15, 2005



VendaGoat posted:

:lol: if you think you are important enough for some "Grand conspiracy" against you.

I don't.. I really don't..which is why I'm so confused about what has been going on lately..

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Sunset posted:

I don't.. I really don't..which is why I'm so confused about what has been going on lately..

How would I have any knowledge of it?

Why don't you tell me what you think is going on?

Sunset
Aug 15, 2005



VendaGoat posted:

How would I have any knowledge of it?

Why don't you tell me what you think is going on?

It would probably involve straight-up hours of writing, multiple pages of reading. I'm sure it would either be very spot on, or a hoot to read. I'm really not sure how to put the phenomena to words, but it's as if certain books, films, etc and what have you suddenly 'speak' to you in a certain way - or there is a presence that helps alert you to, well....what's 'really' going on, I guess. I'm not exactly sure how else to phrase it. It sounds straight up wacky, I'll admit it first. I don't really feel crazy. I can function fine. It's totally fine if nobody believes me, that's okay. The only thing that matters is that it's pretty well understood that I'm on the 'side' that benefits life in this universe. That's it - I'm on nobody else' side here. So I'm on your side, regardless of who it is that reads this message.

Stick Figure Mafia
Dec 11, 2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uR5jmI-vAU

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
As a journalist for Kotaku, I flatter myself that I know something about game theory, OP :smug:

Medieval Medic
Sep 8, 2011
Heres some game theory for you. My left nut is prisoner 1, my right nut is prisoner 2.

Suck my drat balls bitch.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Sunset posted:

So I'm on your side, regardless of who it is that reads this message.

How can you be so sure?

EngineerSean
Feb 9, 2004

by zen death robot

VendaGoat posted:

In a very myopic view, yes.

close enough for phone posting anyway, but isn't that also what the volunteer dilemma addresses? your own maximal solution is one where you don't clean, but if nobody cleans, nobody gets the reward, so it can still be in your best interest to clean up once in a while.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

EngineerSean posted:

close enough for phone posting anyway, but isn't that also what the volunteer dilemma addresses? your own maximal solution is one where you don't clean, but if nobody cleans, nobody gets the reward, so it can still be in your best interest to clean up once in a while.

You know...

This thread is asking me to read things.

I don't like homework. I did poo poo today.

In your secondary myopic aspect of only taking a 2 vs 2 aspect into consideration, the answer is yes.

Stop, recompute for a greater variable then 2 and try again.

poo poo starts to get hosed at 4, unless all parties are willing to work towards a prescribed...

We already have this thread.

clam the FUCK down
Dec 20, 2013

Why don't you just read a book on it OP?

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





Game theory is just a fancy way of saying people are pieces of poo poo in general.

Sunset
Aug 15, 2005



VendaGoat posted:

You know...

This thread is asking me to read things.

I don't like homework. I did poo poo today.

In your secondary myopic aspect of only taking a 2 vs 2 aspect into consideration, the answer is yes.

Stop, recompute for a greater variable then 2 and try again.

poo poo starts to get hosed at 4, unless all parties are willing to work towards a prescribed...

We already have this thread.

Lets take a look at the Stag hunt game VendaGoat

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stag_hunt

Now these game theory games can often be applied to real life settings and scenarios - we just use 'stag/hare hunt' to sort of simplify the mechanics.

But basically, as in the diagram - the players involved can either choose a choice that maximizes gain based on a fear/security way of thought, that is - 'I can choose a hare for 1 point. If my opponent chooses stag, he gets nothing, therefore I still come out on top with 1 point, and he or she looses.'. Choosing the stag option with such a mindset would imply that the owner of that mindset believes that the other player certainly wouldn't choose the stag as well, for if both players are playing with the desire to win over the other, it could be very likely that that player will choose a hare as well, thereby making me lose, and he/she win. So...yes, with that sort of way of perceiving things, you can be guaranteed a point, and that the chance that you make your opponent lose. You will not have the greater 2 points, but neither will your opponent, and there is a chance your opponent may have nothing at all.

But if as a player, you choose to sacrifice 'winning the game' because you feel love instead of fear for the other player, and you hope that they will make the right choice because you truly, truly want them to 'win', in a sense - you choose the stag. If you lose, well...you lose. That's alright in your mind - even if it seems to fly in the face of conventional logic. In this scenario, the other player gets 1 point at the very least, but there is the small chance that the other player might see you with love in their hearts as well instead of fear, and makes the choice of stag as well. If that happens. You both have something happen that never would have been able to happen before - you both get 2 points! Yay. It seems like such an obvious choice to me. Doesn't it to you as well?

I could see a very advanced form of life trying to use this sort of puzzle to help other forms of life realize the beautify in such a puzzle and how you come to the solution that has more harmony.

Edit: Also, in regard to games involving more than 2 players - my answer would still be the same - the belief in trying to help that player/civilization over time realize the beauty in functioning on a harmony based order between everyone involved. I guess I'd just lose the game a lot. :x

Sunset fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Sep 6, 2016

Sunset
Aug 15, 2005



Pawn 17 posted:

Game theory is just a fancy way of saying people are pieces of poo poo in general.

But they don't have to be.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
How much does it cost to fill up a VW bus op?

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VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Sunset posted:

Lets take a look at the Stag hunt game VendaGoat

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stag_hunt

Now these game theory games can often be applied to real life settings and scenarios - we just use 'stag/hare hunt' to sort of simplify the mechanics.

But basically, as in the diagram - the players involved can either choose a choice that maximizes gain based on a fear/security way of thought, that is - 'I can choose a hare for 1 point. If my opponent chooses stag, he gets nothing, therefore I still come out on top with 1 point, and he or she looses.'. Choosing the stag option with such a mindset would imply that the owner of that mindset believes that the other player certainly wouldn't choose the stag as well, for if both players are playing with the desire to win over the other, it could be very likely that that player will choose a hare as well, thereby making me lose, and he/she win. So...yes, with that sort of way of perceiving things, you can be guaranteed a point, and that the chance that you make your opponent lose. You will not have the greater 2 points, but neither will your opponent, and there is a chance your opponent may have nothing at all.

But if as a player, you choose to sacrifice 'winning the game' because you feel love instead of fear for the other player, and you hope that they will make the right choice because you truly, truly want them to 'win', in a sense - you choose the stag. If you lose, well...you lose. That's alright in your mind - even if it seems to fly in the face of conventional logic. In this scenario, the other player gets 1 point at the very least, but there is the small chance that the other player might see you with love in their hearts as well instead of fear, and makes the choice of stag as well. If that happens. You both have something happen that never would have been able to happen before - you both get 2 points! Yay. It seems like such an obvious choice to me. Doesn't it to you as well?

I could see a very advanced form of life trying to use this sort of puzzle to help other forms of life realize the beautify in such a puzzle and how you come to the solution that has more harmony.

Edit: Also, in regard to games involving more than 2 players - my answer would still be the same - the belief in trying to help that player/civilization over time realize the beauty in functioning on a harmony based order between everyone involved. I guess I'd just lose the game a lot. :x

Stop reading reddit and go outside your mom's basement and talk to a woman.

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