{"id":418,"date":"2009-12-22T09:13:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T15:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:24:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:24:51","slug":"game-theory-the-art-of-acting-rational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2009\/12\/game-theory-the-art-of-acting-rational\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Theory: The Art Of Acting Rational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting exercise in game theory:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/money-hand.jpg\" alt=\"Money\" title=\"Money\" width=\"175\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-420\" \/>You are in a game show with nineteen other players. You don&#8217;t know the other players, you can&#8217;t see them, and you can&#8217;t communicate with them. The game you are in is called <em>&#8216;Greed!&#8217;<\/em>, and is straightforward to explain. You are asked to write down a whole dollar amount in the range $1 &#8211; $1,000,000 on a piece of paper. You will be paid the amount you asked for if it is deemed to be &#8216;non-greedy&#8217;. Whether your request is indeed &#8216;non-greedy&#8217; will be decided once all twenty request have been received by the host of the show. Your requested amount will be labeled &#8216;non-greedy&#8217; if no other player has asked for less, and at least one player has asked for more.<\/p>\n<p>How do you play?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificblogging.com\/hammock_physicist\/game_theory_art_acting_rational\">Johannes Koelman<\/a> @ scientificblogging.com\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/12\/17\/how-would-you-win-th.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Game_theory\">Game theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting exercise in game theory: You are in a game show with nineteen other players. You don&#8217;t know the other players, you can&#8217;t see them, and you can&#8217;t communicate with them. The game you are in is called &#8216;Greed!&#8217;, and is straightforward to explain. You are asked to write down a whole dollar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}