A math department at a major university in the US is now offering a semester long course on “game theory”. Yes, you read that right. Games. The things tiny children play. The dumbing down of America continues…
No doubt this will be used by many as an easy way to satisfy the math requirement for their bachelors in woke studies
@colin_fraser @IneffectiveMath I mean, 5 minutes and google: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~y328y... https://www.econlib.org/librar... #d=gs_qabs&t=1713462139742&u=%23p%3D9gwrzHKlGQUJ class="text-blue-500 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://scholar.google.com/sch...
@derekvest @IneffectiveMath Fascinating
@colin_fraser What's next - game marriage?
@Noumenon72 I don’t need some professor explaining to me how to find a stable marriage thanks
@colin_fraser But someone has to develop these games for tiny children, right? That's a huge business.
@wandelistich Fair point
@colin_fraser Adults play games too, and their toys are not as harmless
@vaharoni Some of us have jobs
@colin_fraser Poor take, game theory is an extremely complex/ useful way of analysis for large data sets and population behaviors.
@NotQuiteIt What do you mean
@colin_fraser You mean similar game theory to what won John Nash a Nobel Prize (https://www.google.com/url?q=h... I’d say that has a bit to do with math. So what’s your point?
@john_seelke John Nash, the recipient of the 2015 Abel Prize?
@colin_fraser Game theory is explained in many sci fi novels like Ender’s Game. It’s a military theory based in mathematics to predict reactions.
@Murtaugh0987 Not beating the “for kids” allegations
@colin_fraser Game theory revolutionized marketing, strategic business planning, politics and many other fields. It is a the place where math meets psychology. Read a little on the Nash theorem and Pareto-optimal models if you would like to understand the basic concept.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
@JRlotsofnumbers What’s the Nash theorem
@colin_fraser The true "dumbing down of America" is the lack of initiative people have to research. You could have taken 30 minutes to find out what Game Theory truly was, but instead, you took 3 minutes to post an uneducated tweet. Ignorant person.
@blehblehjj You think it took 3 minutes to write this tweet? Buddy try ten seconds.
@colin_fraser Here's a Game Theory textbook from UCDavis. You probably couldn't understand even just a chapter intro. https://faculty.econ.ucdavis.e...
@MathCurmudgeon Someone already posted this, is this the first google result for “game theory textbook”?