“When your knowledge is incomplete—meaning that the world will seem to you to have an element of randomness—randomizing your actions doesn’t solve the problem
“Ants don’t agree. Take away their food. They’ll go in to random search mode.”
It depends on your degree of ignorance. When totally ignorant try anything, at the least you’ll learn something that doesn’t work, and watching how it fails should teach you more. Otherwise, you should use your best knowledge, without random input. It works for ants, more or less, but for anything with more intelligence and knowledge, using the intelligence and knowledge will work much better. Even ants only use random search when they need to.
Chicken is not a good example of a random game. The best strategy is to be a bloody minded SOB, if you can’t convince your opponent that you are actually crazy. This is more or less what I got from Schelling’s essays in “Strategy of Conflict”.
“When your knowledge is incomplete—meaning that the world will seem to you to have an element of randomness—randomizing your actions doesn’t solve the problem
“Ants don’t agree. Take away their food. They’ll go in to random search mode.”
It depends on your degree of ignorance. When totally ignorant try anything, at the least you’ll learn something that doesn’t work, and watching how it fails should teach you more. Otherwise, you should use your best knowledge, without random input. It works for ants, more or less, but for anything with more intelligence and knowledge, using the intelligence and knowledge will work much better. Even ants only use random search when they need to.
Chicken is not a good example of a random game. The best strategy is to be a bloody minded SOB, if you can’t convince your opponent that you are actually crazy. This is more or less what I got from Schelling’s essays in “Strategy of Conflict”.