{"id":790,"date":"2026-05-17T08:42:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:07:10","slug":"game-theory-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/game-theory-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Theory 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The form best embedded in the homo sapiens&#8217; conscious is the <em>prisoner dilemma<\/em> which considers the problem that two actors have incentive to defect (confess in order to gain reduced sentence). Moral issues aside, game theory is a mathematical analysis that investigates how to reach an optimal outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where calculus has as one primary application the finding of (local) maxima and minima Game Theory can be understood as another optimization problem but expressed commonly from a selfish point of view. To rephrase where calculus concerns abstract data that can but not <em>necessarily<\/em> reflects individual agents, Game Theory <em>does<\/em> emphasize rewards of individual actors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nash equilibrium in this bounded <em>universe<\/em> expresses the state of outcomes in which none of the actors can improve without depression of one of the other actors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another interesting configuration is the case where actors reach a suboptimal outcome (with regards to the interests of <em>both<\/em> actors) because of the absence of absolute information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The form best embedded in the homo sapiens&#8217; conscious is the prisoner dilemma which considers the problem that two actors have incentive to defect (confess in order to gain reduced sentence). Moral issues aside, game theory is a mathematical analysis that investigates how to reach an optimal outcome. Where calculus has as one primary application [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","tag-game-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}