timbeiko.eth
@tim
Is there an equivalent to “the purpose of a system is what it does” for (meta)games/politics/coordination? I get that these are encapsulated by the idom, but looking for something that highlights the human side over the procedural/mechanistic one.
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timbeiko.eth
@tim
“Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcomes” feels like the closest?
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Colton Dillion 🎩
@cadillion
"‘irrationality [is] nothing more than another economic good that actors have preferences over." https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6435.00138
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Gökhan Turhan
@gokhan.eth
out of the context, all it rings a bell at this specific AC-less boilerroom of an overhumid room for me is Erik Hoel's: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/5/188
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Mac Budkowski ᵏ
@macbudkowski
I'd look for something in Meditations on Moloch
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Ed O'Shaughnessy
@eddieosh
For politics, the purpose of the system is to perpetuate itself, i.e. a self-licking ice cream cone.
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moreReese
@morereese
“Only that which can change can continue”…a quote from James P. Carse in Finite & Infinite Games. Coordination is an infinite game filled with enumerable finite games. This is the kind of language and dynamics the likes of Gandhi and Obama were well-versed in
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Del Complex
@delcomplex
Tim, some thoughts: a matter of divergence, and worms Tim, Brain Worms. Join us.
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Noise
@nise
good
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