Evolution and FDT
post by Tristan H (Kythe) · 2022-11-11T19:41:57.379Z · ? · GW · 0 commentsOn Tuesday November 15th I'll be running a meetup on the ways in which evolution has instilled instincts in us which outperform at a societal level the results from traditional game theory, and how fancier decision theories like Functional Decision Theory can help us understand those instincts and perhaps even outperform them.
This will be a combination presentation discussion where I'll introduce various ideas and we'll talk about each:
- How humans get collectively better outcomes than game theory on things like the ultimatum game and prisoner's dilemmas: niceness and spite.
- Introduction to Functional Decision Theory: How taking into account others predicting you leads to better decisions
- How niceness can be seen as conditional prediction on fuzzy humans
- How spite leads to fairer negotiation outcomes
- How to derive the ideal "spite" by providing predictable incentives towards a fair split by calculating the ideal probability with which to randomly blow up the deal
Hope to see you there!
=== WHEN+WHERE ===
7:00pm Tuesday, November 15th
New location in NoHo (Join the mailing list at https://groups.google.com/g/overcomingbiasnyc and say you came from LessWrong to access the post with the address)
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