I think I see… for positive-expectation games (e.g. scientific research) it is possible that the majority of people involved play with justified reason to believe they will make money/good/utility/whatever without implying that the minority without that justified reason to believe will lose tons of money. For zero or negative sum games this is not true. The majority of people cannot have justified reason to believe their individual game is positive expectation (it’s not justified ’cause information that the game is zero/negative sum, and information about how good at the game other people are, is widely available), and are therefore relying on “luck” to select them to win rather than others. Or if the majority know they will win, that implies the minority are losing a lot.
I think I see… for positive-expectation games (e.g. scientific research) it is possible that the majority of people involved play with justified reason to believe they will make money/good/utility/whatever without implying that the minority without that justified reason to believe will lose tons of money. For zero or negative sum games this is not true. The majority of people cannot have justified reason to believe their individual game is positive expectation (it’s not justified ’cause information that the game is zero/negative sum, and information about how good at the game other people are, is widely available), and are therefore relying on “luck” to select them to win rather than others. Or if the majority know they will win, that implies the minority are losing a lot.