LanguageIsCool

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Plus the subtitle bullshit. If you’re in Latin America, although you can watch things in English, oftentimes the only options for subtitles are Spanish and Portuguese. It’s obvious English subtitles exist. They’re just… disabled.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

They’re literally called rational numbers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Le merde posting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Awesome!

Also, prisoners dilemmas can become stag hunts (where cooperation is actually sustained by individual rewards) under scenarios of repeated interaction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

But then it stops being a prisoner’s dilemma. What makes the game so intriguing is that individual rewards take you to a suboptimal outcome. When the collective and individual incentives agree, it’s called a prisoner’s delight.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Totally agree. That’s why I love it so much. Like a big “fuck you” to economic theory and profit maximization.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That’s rational though, isn’t it?

 

A friend from Argentina once told me Argentina keeps its best wines for themselves and exports the mediocre stuff, even at the sake of profits.

Similarly, a friend from Turkey once said he couldn’t find good Turkish olives outside of Turkey because “Turks are terrible businessmen and keep the best olives to themselves.”

These are anecdotal and might be untrue but I liked the idea.

At an individual level, it’s irrational to cooperate in a prisoner’s dilemma yet experiments show people cooperate.

Contributing to open source projects may fall into this category.

Have you observed any obvious behavior that goes counter to profit maximization? Any cool examples?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

I hear if you fold it 42 times it’s thick enough to reach the moon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

At least they didn’t keep up the farce and exaggerate it: “Don’t be evil. Ever. We’re still not evil. Nuh uh, nope.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn’t this happen in the cartoon Doug?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What happened to that shit? I hate how something like that can emerge, take hold, push people into conspiracies and the right, literally destroy families, then go away and nobody cares

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

What if it never ends though? Rolls from one post to the next

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