Timeline for Gandhi's quote formalized [closed]
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| Sep 8, 2012 at 3:26 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | There is certainly some math here --- one of the very few game theory books I have read is on precisely this question. I hope a version of this question is asked and answered at length. | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 21:23 | comment | added | Sasha | @quid: No, I did not. | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 20:14 | comment | added | Charles Staats | A general remark: given the context of the quote, it seems highly unlikely that answers about "selfish economics" are what the OP has in mind. It seems more appropriate to consider a model in which all agents have exactly the same optimization function, and must determine how to achieve it without coordination (and possibly with each agent having limited, "local" information). Cooperative hat puzzles seem like a possible candidate here; see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat_puzzle . Unfortunately, for a hat puzzle, the "local algorithm" tends to look quite different from the global problem. | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 19:11 | history | closed |
user9072 Henry Cohn Steven Landsburg DamienC Suvrit |
not a real question | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 19:09 | answer | added | Steven Landsburg | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 19:05 | comment | added | DamienC | @quid: +1. the question could be interesting, but it seems to me that the OP did not make the effort that would make it an interesting question. | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 18:51 | comment | added | user9072 | Did you make any effort to read something on game theory (if only a couple of pages on wikipedia) before asking this question? It seems not. Vote to close. | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 18:41 | answer | added | Suvrit | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 18:31 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | Yes... if you change your notion of "best possible" accordingly. Gerhard "Still It Makes Little Sense" Paseman, 2012.09.04 | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 18:03 | comment | added | Guntram | Sigmund's "The calculus of selfishness" (see cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/calculus-of-selfishness.html for a review) might be a good read. | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 17:56 | history | asked | Sasha | CC BY-SA 3.0 |