Preventing Nuclear War
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What Is Game Theory?
Game theory is a way of modelling interactions between actors or players in a game, as if real world situations were like games. One person's rationality can be another person's irrationality, vice versait. The lack of perfect information makes game theory break down and using it to model life breaks down too. But there are limitations on the conceptulising nuclear terrents - i think game theory can be useful for modelling some serious situations such as war.
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