• @[email protected]
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    -155 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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      235 months ago

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

    • Liz
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      175 months ago

      Sounds like somebody doesn’t enjoy competition.

    • @Ultraviolet
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      5 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?