• MinusPi (she/they)
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      384 months ago

      No? It’s a field of math, which are typically called theories, that studies games.

      • @[email protected]
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        -154 months ago

        It doesn’t study games, it studies competitive systems. Mathematicians chose to call competitive systems games and that was a mistake.

        • MinusPi (she/they)
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          234 months ago

          It studies cooperative systems too. The most specific term that covers everything in it really is Game.

        • Liz
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          174 months ago

          Sounds like somebody doesn’t enjoy competition.

        • @Ultraviolet
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          4 months ago

          And what’s a concise word to describe a system in which participants make decisions within some ruleset where the interaction between each participant’s decisions and the ruleset leads to determining whether each participant wins or loses?