To Get Good, Go After The Metagame
What do metagames have to do with the acquisition of expertise?
game-theory
Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent...
We introduce DeepNash, an autonomous agent capable of learning to play the imperfect information game Stratego from scratch, up to a human expert level. Stratego is one of the few iconic board...
Cross-chain Deals and Adversarial Commerce
This paper appeared in VLDB'19 and is authored by Maurice Herlihy, Barbara Liskov, and Liuba Shrira. How can autonomous, mutually-distrust...
Market Design
A broad overview of market mechanisms, with an emphasis on the interplay between theory and real-life applications; examples range from eBay auctions to scho...
July 26, 2018 – Don't Worry About the Vase
1 post published by TheZvi on July 26, 2018
Subsidizing Prediction Markets
Epistemic Status: Sadly Not Yet Subsidized Robin Hanson linked to my previous post on prediction markets with the following note: I did briefly mention subsidization, as an option for satisfying th…
Auctions: Theory and Practice
Quadratic Voting
We are a community of activists, artists, entrepreneurs, and scholars committed to using mechanism design to inspire radical social change.
The Games We Play: Understanding Strategic Culture Through Games - Modern War Institute
This article is part of the contribution made by the US Army War College to the series “Compete and Win: Envisioning a Competitive Strategy for the Twenty-First Century.” The series […]
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Consuming Contests: The Effect of Outcome Uncertainty on Spectator Attendance in the Australian Football League
Contests that non-contestants consume for entertainment are a fixture of economic, cultural and political life. We exploit injury-induced changes to teams’ line
The Wild, Wonderful World of Estate Sales
The estate-sale industry is fragile and persistent in a way that doesn’t square with the story of the world as we have come to expect it.
Game theory as an engine for large-scale data analysis | DeepMind
Modern AI systems approach tasks like recognising objects in images and predicting the 3D structure of proteins as a diligent student would prepare for an exam. By training on many example...
Larry David and the Game Theory of Anonymous Donations
What your generosity signals about you.
Game Theory – Open Yale Courses
In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium
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John Nash’s notion of equilibrium is ubiquitous in economic theory, but a new study shows that it is often impossible to reach efficiently.
How grading agencies drove the trading card boom
They standardized value, which helped collectors to get a sense of the market.
The Economics of Sports Gambling (Ep. 388 Rebroadcast)
The hidden side of everything
captn3m0/boardgame-research
List of research around modern boardgames.
Game Theory
Game Theory is the study of micro-situations where each situation demands a decision that
The (Auction) House Doesn’t Always Win
As Christie’s, Sotheby’s and others vie to lure sellers of big-name artworks, analysts wonder if the houses are running oversize risks.
Quadratic Voting
Quadratic voting is a rated voting method procedure where voters express the degree of their preferences. By doing so, quadratic voting seeks to address issues of the Condorcet paradox and tyranny of the majority. Quadratic voting works by allowing users to "pay" for additional…
A Crash Course in Game Theory for Machine Learning: Classic and New Ideas
Why prediction markets are bad at predicting who’ll be president
Betting markets show Bloomberg as a leading candidate. Really?
Black–Scholes model - Wikipedia
The Black–Scholes /ˌblæk ˈʃoʊlz/[1] or Black–Scholes–Merton model is a mathematical model for the dynamics of a financial market containing derivative investment instruments. From the parabolic partial differential equation in the model, known as the Black–Scholes…
Overcoming Bias : Should Prediction Markets be Charities?
Advocates of prediction markets often focus their attention on markets that can be run for profit.
Prisoner’s Dilemma: Is Cooperation Always the Right Answer?
In this classic game theory experiment, you must decide: rat out another for personal benefit, or cooperate? The answer may be more complicated than you think.
The Best Board Games of the Ancient World
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Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga
Pricing algorithms can learn to collude with each other to raise prices
If you shop on Amazon, an algorithm rather than a human probably set the price of the service or item you bought. Pricing algorithms have become ubiquitous in online retail as automated systems have grown increasingly affordable and easy to implement. But while companies like…
Quadratic Payments: A Primer
ChessRoots - Chess opening graph from over 800 million Chess games
Chess openings visualized from over 800 million Lichess games, 2 million tournament games and 1 million chess engine games.
The Board Game at the Heart of Viking Culture
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An ancient game known as “hnefatafl” held immense symbolic and religious significance.
Vickrey–Clarke–Groves auction
A Vickrey–Clarke–Groves (VCG) auction is a type of sealed-bid auction of multiple items. Bidders submit bids that report their valuations for the items, without knowing the bids of the other bidders. The auction system assigns the items in a socially optimal manner: it charges…
A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive
Some lawmakers in Colorado tried so-called quadratic voting—and it worked.
The confoundingly simple yet deep design of Azul, the best board game of 2018
It’s the game for anyone who loves shaking Scrabble tiles in the bag. (And you know you do.)
The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds
8 Board Games So Beautiful, They’re Works Of Art
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GAME THEORY FOR MANAGERS
This book, written in an interactive manner and easy-to-comprehend style, explicates the concepts of game theory. It enables the readers to think strategically in interactions that they may encounter as managers. The book innovatively cites real-world scenarios to highlight the…
Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game
When there is an opportunity to gain a positive reputation, individuals are more willing to sacrifice their immediate self-interest. Partner choice creates opportunities for competitive altruism, i.e. individuals compete to be regarded as more generous ...