• 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?