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By Len Fisher
Praised by way of Entertainment Weekly as “the guy who placed the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his consciousness to the technology of cooperation in his vigorous and thought-provoking publication. Fisher indicates how the fashionable technological know-how of video game idea has helped biologists to appreciate the evolution of cooperation in nature, and investigates how we would practice these classes to our personal society. In a sequence of experiments that take him from the well mannered confines of an English banquet to crowded supermarkets, congested Indian roads, and the wilds of outback Australia, let alone baseball suggestions and the intricacies of quantum mechanics, Fisher sheds mild at the challenge of worldwide cooperation. the results are often hilarious, occasionally alarming, yet consistently revealing. A witty romp via a significant technology, Rock, Paper, Scissors will either educate and enjoyment somebody attracted to what it what it takes to get humans to interact.
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Von Neumann and his co-author, the economist Oskar Morgenstern, analyzed the best strategies for winning at such games in one of the most unreadable books in history: Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, a 648-page tome, heavily laden with mathematics, which in my own library now serves as a doorstop, having been replaced on my shelves by later, more accessible works. Their conclusion was that the Minimax principle always leads to the best strategy—for both sides! Unfortunately, this conclusion applies only to zero-sum situations, where the gains and losses balance out neatly.
But how then was I to consult them about how I should consult them? Caught on a sinking ship in their whirlpool of logic, I followed the only course possible: I jumped ship and left them to it. I have had no direct involvement with politics since. My brief excursion into politics, however, was connected to my deep concerns about the direction the world was heading in. I now know that politics isn’t my forte. For one thing, I retain my childhood sense of fairness and fair play, which is not something that fits very well with practical politics.
If Bernard chooses not to confess, for example, he will end up in jail for ten years instead of four, and the same thing goes for Frank. Only by making the cooperative, coordinated move of both not confessing can they get to the (2,2) option. ■ 0465009381-Fisher 8/25/08 12:07 PM Page 22 22 | ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS The secret to resolving such situations is for the parties to find some way of agreeing to coordinate their actions and for all parties to stick to the agreement. A friend of mine saw a hilarious example of what can happen when these conditions are not fulfilled while he was driving on a mountain road in Italy.