Game Theory for Paulistas
Submitted by dcunited001 on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 02:52So I've been reading a little bit about Game Theory recently. I haven't quite finished my book because I'm trying to focus on finishing Plato's Republic, which should probably be required reading for anyone with two legs.
I'm actually not that deep into Game Theory yet, but I believe it has a lot to offer us. I hope to be able to study more of it soon because it's really interesting.
A few key points:
- Games are mathematic models of scenario's where multiple parties have the ability to make decisions to affect an outcome.
- E.G. the Prisoner's Delimma - or Politics.
- Games can be sequential or simultaneous
- Most games are are a mixture of both.
- Some games have a finite number of possible moves
- But in more complex games you're limited to you're imagination.
- Assuming each player is playing to win, chess is finite.
- Though the rules are simpler, Japanese "Go" is much more complicated.
Strategies:
- Examine all your moves and predict your opponents moves.
- A single strategy is a losing strategy!
- Don't become predictable.
- Establishing credibility is paramount.
- Credibility helps your opponents determine your next move.
- Use credibility to your advantage, but don't waste it.
- Information is crucial. It helps you predict your opponents next move.
- Be wary of false or worthless information.
- Examine your opponent's motivation and intent, but don't act paranoid.
- Actions speak louder than words.
- Excel in identifying key information and motivation.
- Don't be the bad guy.
- Know yourself and know your enemy.
- If you know your opponent won't make certain moves, you can probably eliminate them.
- The enemy of your enemy can be your friend.
- Force your opponent to choose between his knight and bishop.
- Or better yet, his bishop and rook.
- Because you can be sure he'll choose the rook.
- Assume formlessness.
Also:
- Newt Gingrich probably aced Game Theory, but that doesn't make it inherently evil.
- Don't violate your morals or ethics in general, but don't allow an ignorance of games and their rules to be a reason to lose.
- Dirty people know dirty tricks, but they don't have to be the only ones.
- When in doubt, watch lectures online at Open Yale. They're free. http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/game-theory/
- If you can't beat 'em, don't join 'em. Change the frame, change the rules or change the game.
Win Or Lose
When you play the Rat Race, win or lose, you're still a Rat.
"I SMELL A RAT!"
-- Immortal words uttered by Patrick Henry upon refusing his invitation to attend the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787.
"I need not take much pains to show, that the principles of this system, are extremely pernicious, impolitic, and dangerous. Here is a revolution as radical as that which separated us from Great Britain."
http://www.constitution.org/afp/phenry00.htm
Games Today
Re-reading some Patrick Henry at the Ratifying Convention, I was struck by this quote, and how it relates to "games" going on today:
"Sir, it is the fortune of a free people not to be intimidated by imaginary dangers. Fear is the passion of slaves."
-- Saturday, June 7, 1788, on Legitimate government.
How funny, how apropos to our time ...
Not "Fear is the Passion of People" ... but SLAVES!
Is this true? The theme to most DP posts I make is:
Freedom = Independence = Responsibility = Property = Abundance = Wealth = FreeMarket = SoundMoney = Peace ...
Slavery = Dependence = Irresponsibility = Landless = Depravity = Poverty = Socialism = FiatMoney = Strife ...
When dependent on the "system", one is always in fear of having nothing, because everything necessary in life can be taken away at any time by injury, loss of employment, by suit, monetary policy, etc. So one must put all their hope and faith in masters with good words like "YES WE CAN!" Fear is always the passion those in involuntary servitude.
That is behind the "games" played upon slaves.
Land that can sustain life is the ONLY defense. With land, there is continuous bounty dependent only upon nature, and one never lives in fear of having nothing. A landowner is the only free man because he is not dependent on the "system" for his sustenance.
He is the only man who can play the "game" on his terms, eg, when conditions are favorable to play voluntarily.
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Very Good & Interesting
I used to love games as a child, and won all chess tournaments each year of high school. But as I got older, I learned some new rules for games.
Lead beats 4 Aces.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- p.449 Jeffersonian Cyclopedia published in 1900 by Funk and Wagnalls, edited by John P. Foley.
The best defense is a good offense.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
-- p.271 Jeffersonian Cyclopedia published in 1900 by Funk and Wagnalls, edited by John P. Foley.
When you are your own opponent, you lose regardless of the game.
"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."
-- p.143 Jeffersonian Cyclopedia published in 1900 by Funk and Wagnalls, edited by John P. Foley.
I need to make that my signature.
Lead Beats 4 Aces
That's a good one. "The best defense is a good offense" Ain't that the truth.
Our founders anticipated today's challenges so well because they were so familiar with the democratic and republican governments in Rome and especially Athens. I wish I had read classic philosophy in high school. I would understand far more about the world. But it's deemed "too hard"
In The End ...
In the end, life is all too short for all of us. "Yesterday" it was my 33rd birthday, getting my business rolling after leaving govt work due to my disgust with gross incompetance and massive waste of hard-earned taxpayer dollars. I thought I was on my true path in life after serving in small business many years, science and engineering degrees, never a TV or "fun times", studying and working on all things I felt were foundational in life, saving every cent to buy a home/land (no loans) to make a foundation for a good marriage. Then a major catastrophe happened with arguably the most powerful (connected) person in the state, which led me spiraling into endless corruption with doctors, then attorneys, then every city office, then the entire judicial branch of the state, as I was driven into foreclosure (failure to pay property taxes) and homelessness and endless corruption in every area - 1998. Then 911, and I saw that everything I experienced at a state level was operating at a federal level - spent years studying law and fighting in courts, 16+ hours/day for a decade. I finally collapsed in exhaustion. "Today", I am almost 50. I learned things, but I lost a lot. In the end, maybe it was my destiny. I scored big with silver because of my work in uncovering corruption, and ended up "retired" homesteading on my land, which I guess was always the deepest part of my dreams. But just about all of my work and hopes in life were destroyed and laid to waste. Then again, it set the stage for a new kind of work, that was possibly embedded in my soul all along - the opportunity for real freedom, personal development, and giving of myself to things greater than a personal family and material desires.
As Forrest Gump said: Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get :)
And as Ron Paul says: Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies.
Moral of the story: Life is nothing but a big "game" when you are landless, and losing can cost your life.
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Nobody wants to touch the last quote I took from Jefferson. It seems to be an untouchable topic, yet I find it undeniably true. I would like to debate it or explain it sometime, maybe in a new topic. There is solid reasoning behind it that I find inescapable.
Thanks for your reply ...
ps. You may want to check out the link in my Rat post. What you say about Rome/Greece is true, but you can add the history England/Scotland and Blackstone to your list also ...
Maine Games
I just finished reading the Maine caucus vote frauds on the main page, and it's not funny, but I can't help but ummm ... well, laugh my ass off. You may think it's a sleepy little state with not many people, so how could there be too much vote fraud? I mean, let's not be conspiratorial! But I know firsthand what the "establishment web" in cities and states consists of. Did you ever wonder how it can be?
Well, in my own case, because I was dealing with so many people that were outright and outrageously screwing me from every possible direction (hospitals, attorneys, courts, utility companies, city offices, police, and more), I programmed my UNIX box to go thru a list of names of the "evil" people I was dealing with to do Google searches on every possible combination of names, to see how the names would tie together. And I found them all tied together on boards of corporations, boards of universities, boards of do-gooder and other organizations, and past/present political offices at various levels, etc.
That is where they are. That is who they are. That is where they meet and connect. That is how they all know each other. And they rotate around from political offices, to boards of directors, and all these high-paid $100-200k+ do-nothing positions, often occupying several positions at the same time, making many 100s of 1000s or millions per year.
That is where you will find the "cronies" :) And how you can understand this invisible web of corruption. That is where your "politicians" come from, and how they get publicity/funding/recognition when they run for office, but MOSTLY, they occupy secondary political offices as assistants to the "recognized" political names. They all sit together weekly/monthly to plot and scheme and do whatever they do, judges and media heads included, and they all know each other and have each others phone numbers.