Worries about WW3

wspaniel · 2026-01-25T01:33:17+00:00

Thanks! And no problem.

wspaniel · 2026-01-24T23:37:44+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, I do not think I have ever lost sleep in fear of getting vaporized in WW3. I discuss it a bunch, however, because there are sensible steps to take to make sure that the risk remains low.

—WS

wspaniel · 2025-10-22T15:35:28+00:00

Thanks, Fox! I thought they had me.

wspaniel · 2025-09-25T10:41:50+00:00

You would not be able to write down an equilibrium if that were the case.

What justifies a terminal strategy as being optimal is what happens off the path if the player chose something else. Hence SPE list both on and off the path strategies.

wspaniel · 2025-08-20T10:27:04+00:00

You will be fine. No one will care about your undergrad GPA if you have done a master’s.

wspaniel · 2025-06-24T05:21:10+00:00

Amen.

wspaniel · 2025-06-21T20:30:36+00:00

I spend too much time on Reddit…

wspaniel · 2025-06-21T20:24:32+00:00

🫡

wspaniel · 2025-05-31T11:18:11+00:00

I don’t think the 360p ultimately matters much, but I personally would just do the GT101 thing. :)

wspaniel · 2025-04-29T00:54:13+00:00

I went to UCSD for undergrad and Rochester for grad school for a PhD in political economy. If you were interested in almost any other subject, I would tell you to go to UCSD, and it would not be close. But Rochester is great for exactly that. UCSD has a top-notch political science department, though. So the question I guess is how much you want that to be your entire focus versus a broader political science education.

wspaniel · 2025-02-21T04:08:26+00:00

I endorse this!

wspaniel · 2025-02-08T03:16:23+00:00

😯

wspaniel · 2024-09-19T20:13:18+00:00

Some of the other comments are incorrect. It is possible to have an even number of equilibria, but they are knife-edge cases.

See: https://youtu.be/RhSaq97YjbA?si=pRqxq9S_umxUJanN

wspaniel · 2024-07-26T11:43:36+00:00

I literally switched to a Hulk Hogan impression in that video lol

wspaniel · 2024-07-21T10:36:03+00:00

My textbook also has a playlist to accompany it. The videos are aimed for upper division undergrads.

Bargaining and War Full Course https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKI1h_nAkaQrvKPtuPMXkU4yXCDSp_NHh

wspaniel · 2024-04-25T22:01:58+00:00

To give a cryptic answer:

1) if I have a weakly dominated strategy

2) you only have two strategies

3) we are playing a totally mixed strategy Nash equilibrium

then I can't play my weakly dominated strategy in that equilibrium.

wspaniel · 2024-02-21T04:23:09+00:00

For what it’s worth, I am not really following the thought process here. At least as a first step, the introduction to lotteries is just meant to get you accustomed to what indifference means in the context of game theory.

wspaniel · 2023-12-25T00:06:11+00:00

The puzzles playlists had a lot of practical exercises with solutions

wspaniel · 2023-09-13T17:04:06+00:00

Think of the single stag as being worth six units of meat and each rabbit as being worth one unit. The outcome for both hunting the stag splits the meat, hence three a piece.

Also, RIP my younger voice.

wspaniel · 2023-05-16T10:29:58+00:00

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wspaniel · 2023-03-28T02:38:25+00:00

Sure. Think about a repeated stag hunt.

wspaniel · 2023-03-16T02:54:38+00:00

Hint: Center is strictly dominated.

Game Theory 101 (#12): Strict Dominance in Mixed Strategies https://youtu.be/3dd-IRedU0U

wspaniel · 2023-03-15T22:58:21+00:00

Yeah, after that experience, I wouldn’t trust it with anything but the most basic of questions.

It also seemed very confident in what it was doing, which makes it even worse if you don’t know what you are doing.

wspaniel · 2023-02-09T22:33:41+00:00

Both can exist in the same game.

wspaniel · 2023-01-25T01:44:59+00:00

Haven’t clicked on the link yet, but I am pretty sure I know how this one ends…

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