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zoren | 8 years ago

In The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues that applying game theory to real life situations is one instance of the ludic fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy

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VHRanger|8 years ago

Fair warning: N. Taleb is more or less an anti-intellectual. He hates on most formal models he didn't write himself and most of his books are musings on heuristics.