Here are some course notes for my first class on game theory. I'm not sure I'll be able to keep this up, but I'll try.
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Happy to see that your are posting these notes +John Baez. Looking forward to reading them on your blog. Jan 7, 2013
+Dan Eastwood - in a few weeks, post an interesting comment or question about the game theory notes on my blog. That'll let me know someone is paying attention, and that'll increase my payoff.Jan 7, 2013
Re vilification, I read something years ago that said psychologically most humans are happy to make minor bendings of rules but don't like it when they or others seriously violate rules. As a consequence, if you have a set of rules you want obeyed, you should design a stricter set of rules whose "acceptable breakings" corresponds to the rules you originally wanted. So there might be "keep of the grass" signs in order to stop people actually, eg, playing ball games on the grass, but expecting light walking to occur in practice. How to model this mathematically...Jan 7, 2013- I like that idea, +David Tweed. When I was a young mathematician very concerned with precision, I wanted to formulate a theory of vagueness that could handle all sorts of things like this. Unfortunately I wanted a precise theory of vagueness.Jan 7, 2013
Fuzzy boundary conditions? ... (maybe not)Jan 7, 2013- I am reminded of the Philosophers* in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who go on strike, demanding rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. ;-)
*IIRC: Broomfondle and Magic Thighs.Jan 7, 2013