{"id":1212,"date":"2009-01-12T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2009-01-12T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T10:00:16","slug":"of-crucial-importance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1212","title":{"rendered":"Of Crucial Importance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/scitech\/article\/2009-01\/len-fisher-talks-about-game-theory\">A Conversation with Len Fisher<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Applying game theory to the game Rock, Paper, Scissors, and to other, less important aspects of life.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chances are you&#8217;ve played Rock, Paper, Scissors, but how do you calculate your strategy, if you have one at all?<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life<\/em>, physicist Len Fisher points out that putting yourself in your opponent&#8217;s mindset is a key to success in the game.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all part of game theory, which has to do with everyday strategies and commonplace interactions &#8212; and not just those designed for winning at Monopoly or trapping wild elk, as it may sound. Fisher, a visiting research fellow in physics at the University of Bristol and author of several science books for lay audiences, argues that a teaspoon of this sort of thinking can illuminate a range of human behaviors. Not to mention that game theory offers a handy explanation of why all those teaspoons keep disappearing from the communal lunchroom at work. (Individuals think it won&#8217;t hurt the collective if they take &#8220;just one&#8221; spoon, but, voil\u00e0, in no time, there are very few, if any, left for the collective to use.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Conversation with Len Fisher Applying game theory to the game Rock, Paper, Scissors, and to other, less important aspects of life. Chances are you&#8217;ve played Rock, Paper, Scissors, but how do you calculate your strategy, if you have one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1212\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}