Tit for Tat
It teaches us that our best option when dealing with other people we cannot trust entirely is to reciprocate their choices. Seeing as we can rarely place full trust in anyone, especially if they stand to gain by screwing us over, we lean toward tit for tat. In general, we view this as fair and just.
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
The usefulness of this strategy depends on women being able to identify those who might be likely and effective mate poachers and then excluding them (but not others) from their social circles. If a woman indiscriminately distances herself and her partner from potential poachers (i.e., all other women), she is assured of his fidelity but at the cos
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Part 1 - Introduction Mechanism Design - Programming human behavior through carefully designed incentives. Humans are goal-oriented machines that react to incentives. Incentives are produced by economic games that can be crafted and engineered. So we humans do something to reach a goal, and one of the most unifying goals is money. So we desi
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The Theory of Games is a method of analyzing a conflict, according to the following abstraction: The conflict is a situation in which there are two sets of opposing interests; it may be regarded as a game between two players, each of whom represents one set of interests. Each player has a finite set of strategies from which he may, on any given pla
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Nash equilibrium.9 This means that each player follows a strategy such that none of them have a better strategy unless one of the other players changes her strategy.