I’ve read this book and learned about game theory in the past, so I feel pretty familiar with the subject matter. One thing that I think is so cool about game theory is how universally applicable it is — the concepts and situations appear in every single instance of human interaction. One of these situations tends to come up in almost every single one of my classes since freshman year. One point that RPS made was that all four situations are essentially the same thing because the cooperative solution is never the default despite being the best possible outcome. Thinking about why this takes place, I feel like a lot of people cite the reason that people are inherently selfish so you can never act under the assumption that another person will look out for you. I am less pessimistic and think that educating people on the situation and telling them about game theory and the factors at play will make someone understand that they are operating on incorrect assumptions that they should not be using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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