Evolutionary Game Theory...Think on this!

[bicentennial_baby]

Evolutionary game theory originated as an application of the mathematical theory of games to biological contexts, arising from the realization that frequency dependent fitness introduces a strategic aspect to evolution. Recently, however, evolutionary game theory has become of increased interest to economists, sociologists, and anthropologists--and social scientists in general--as well as philosophers. The interest among social scientists in a theory with explicit biological roots derives from three facts. First, the ‘evolution’ treated by evolutionary game theory need not be biological evolution. ‘Evolution’ may, in this context, often be understood as cultural evolution, where this refers to changes in beliefs and norms over time. Second, the rationality assumptions underlying evolutionary game theory are, in many cases, more appropriate for the modelling of social systems than those assumptions underlying the traditional theory of games. Third, evolutionary game theory, as an explicitly dynamic theory, provides an important element missing from the traditional theory. In the preface to Evolution and the Theory of Games, Maynard Smith notes that "

aradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behaviour for which it was originally designed." It is perhaps doubly paradoxical, then, that the subsequent development of evolutionary game theory has produced a theory which holds great promise for social scientists, and is as readily applied to the field of economic behaviour as that for which it was originally designed.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/game-evolutionary/

:crazy:

:)

[Lethe]

1. but what bout the Nintendo Wii?

?

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Hmmmm.....ask Cartman

[crim son]

3. I remember learning about this somewhere... a statistics course, maybe?

Why are you reading about it?

[bicentennial_baby]

4. I'm just learning about Game Theory in general...

for Economics...My wonderfully lovely major.... :eyes:

Actually, I love it....'cause I'm nuts! :D

:P

[crim son]

5. I don't doubt it.

I never took Economics in college, but in HS I got a C in the subject. A testament to how Economics conflicts with Psychology. I just couldn't understand the basics :7

[bicentennial_baby]

7. ha ha!

I'm the *last* person anyone would think would be an Econ major...But for some reason, it just clicks with me...weird...

[crim son]

8. No; you're probably then very good at it.

You bring to the subject a *rounder* perspective. Right?

[bicentennial_baby]

10. Well, I'm a woman,

which is rare enough in Econ, and I'm a raging leftist, sooooo....yeah :D

[crim son]

11. Exactly! n/t

[Omphaloskepsis]

6. Fuck the Social Sciences... God is all knowing..

Util == null

[crim son]

9. Which god? n/t

[Omphaloskepsis]

13. My god.. The only one I could give a shit about.

First name = Mohammad ------- Last name = Jobs

It is a bad joke, but telling..
edit: for clarity.

[crim son]

14. I think we're on the same side of the issue.

Although I don't know that particular joke.

[Wonk]

12. On a related note, finite games vs infinite games

(I didn't read that entire link you posted above, just skimmed it for now)

Infinite games are much more fun, though finite games have their place too :-)

http://www.worldtrans.org/pos/infinitegames.html

http://www.amazon.com/Finite-Infinite-Games-James-Carse/dp/0345341848

[bicentennial_baby]

15. thank you sir

:)

[crim son]

16. You DO realize it's 1:44 eastern time and far too late

to read anything complex or meaningful. Yes?

[bicentennial_baby]

17. He's got me hooked...

oy, i so should be in bed, but math is swimming in my head... sigh....

[crim son]

18. Okay, carry on.

I'm just trying to protect you! :p

[bicentennial_baby]

19. thank you sweetie....

i'm not a wondrous mathematician, but i get bettah every day. i'm really more into the theoretical stuff, but this game theory thang has piqued my interest, so to speak. :)