I’ve been using most of alkjash’s posts more as guided meditations on a topic, that help me focus my mind on something interesting for a few minutes, and for that I really appreciate longer length and more anecdotes. Though I did also find the flow in this one a bit worse.
I definitely worried about that too. The reason I put in so many examples is because I am not sure which ones are most central. It’s not clear to me how much more there is here than thought experiments, and which ones are closest to reality. One of the pieces I think is most important that I haven’t seen in conventional game theory discussions is the idea that a human being playing an iterated game might want to spend a good chunk of time self-modifying.
This is a neat idea but too long and repetitive. You use a ton of examples when the message gets across after 2 or 3.
I’ve been using most of alkjash’s posts more as guided meditations on a topic, that help me focus my mind on something interesting for a few minutes, and for that I really appreciate longer length and more anecdotes. Though I did also find the flow in this one a bit worse.
I definitely worried about that too. The reason I put in so many examples is because I am not sure which ones are most central. It’s not clear to me how much more there is here than thought experiments, and which ones are closest to reality. One of the pieces I think is most important that I haven’t seen in conventional game theory discussions is the idea that a human being playing an iterated game might want to spend a good chunk of time self-modifying.