{"id":785,"date":"2026-04-26T08:42:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:42:03","slug":"introduction-to-game-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/introduction-to-game-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Game Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear readers today we will start of with a series that potentially can go on for a long time. Given my previous inclinations towards variety it is for now difficult to predict whether this will actually take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Game theory is a mathematical model that breaks down problems into individual actors and imbues these actors with agency. The most simple form is a 2&#215;2 matrix that covers (from the perspective of an all-knowing godhead) the consequences of choices that these actors make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crucial in these models or contexts is that the choice of action of each respective agent influences the consequence (&#8220;reward&#8221; in its technical term) of the other agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is all that we will cover in the first installment. More on Game Theory to come&#8230; (godwilling.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear readers today we will start of with a series that potentially can go on for a long time. Given my previous inclinations towards variety it is for now difficult to predict whether this will actually take place. Game theory is a mathematical model that breaks down problems into individual actors and imbues these actors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,46],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-game-theory","tag-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}