Playing The Game
I’ve become fascinated recently with Game Theory. I think it’s because slowly I’ve come to realize we are all actually just playing games, or rather, life is a game. Whether it’s business, relationships, corporate jostling, politics, or economics, just about everything in life when dealing with people is a game.
One simple example is the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Basically this is a game in which you have two players (two suspects in a crime) each of them are interrogated separately and they can not talk. The players can either, stay silent, or betray the other:
| Prisoner B Stays Silent | Prisoner B Betrays | |
|---|---|---|
| Prisoner A Stays Silent | Each serves 6 months | Prisoner A: 10 years Prisoner B: goes free |
| Prisoner A Betrays | Prisoner A: goes free Prisoner B: 10 years |
Each serves 5 years |
I think what I like most about this is that it can also be expressed mathematically, and you can determine / calculate optimal and sub-optimal strategies… Anyways I just find this stuff fascinating…
So if you think you don’t need to play games in life, remember, life’s a game, you just don’t know it.
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