So I'm working on a new book, and I've recently become completely smitten by game theory, specifically finite and infinite games.In game theory, there are two types of games-- finite and infinite games.
What's driving? So there's a number of systemic disconnects that I could-- the disconnect between, for example, finite resources and the infinite growth paradigm.So that's an obvious one kind of related to the ecological crisis.
became rather portly but as the years progressed 1914 1516 and as finite that the power was so great that if held too long it would begin to
to choose one element from each of the sets. - For finite sets, this seems obvious, just go set by set and pick something. Even for infinite sets, it's easy if there's a clear rule, like always choose the smallest thing, but sometimes there is no natural rule.
From the mid 1980s, a philosopher and theologian by the name of James Carse articulated these two types of games, finite games and infinite games. A finite game is defined as known players, fixed rules, and agreed-upon objective, football, baseball, a new business pitch. If there is a winner necessarily, there has to be a loser or losers.
And on the other hand, we have this idea of Poincare recurrence, which is something that, again, it's something that you sort of associate with finite systems. And it says that you have a finite -- you have any finite system, and then you can sort of have random jumps in that system. Then eventually, you'll always get back to where you started.
We can become more nationalistic, more populist, because we want to become more defensive of what it is that's around us, because when it comes to sharing increasingly finite resources, that could lead to some huge human rights implications, something that actually would be incredibly immoral, especially when we can do things now to try and solve the problems in the future or reduce the impacts of the problems in the future.
And what I found over the course of those interviews was that men, women, and society view men's time as finite , like diamonds, and women's time as infinite, like sand. And my favorite way to get at that finding was to interview men and women with the same job.
In game theory, there are two types of games-- finite and infinite games. A finite game is defined as known players, fixed rules, and an agreed upon objective, like baseball. We all agree to the rules.
They compete against themselves. The finite players are the ones who wake up every day trying to beat somebody else. The infinite players the ones who say, how can we be a better version of ourselves, how can we advance our metrics, how can we
living sort of working through like kind of living inside my mind you know so you're going to leave it up to chance builtin finite lifespan uh because the internet's always going to be new I mean that's
I assume all of you guys have worked in teams in your life. That finite size can be determined by the level of trust that you have, can be determined by preexisting social ties, or by transactional costs that also
In fact what we have learned, and I hope we learn this very profoundly and explicitly, is there is no limit to the needs of human kind that need to be met and there is no limit or finite limit that we've identified to the ingenuity of the human mind in meeting those needs. China will grow and we could if we had, and hopefully we do have the ingenuity, to generate
our toes and to be making the right choices as much as we possibly can because we have what psychologists call a finite worry pool we can't relate to Global crisis because it's never happen to us we're we're worried about you know senior year what I'm going to do after I graduate you know the fact that I have no money whatever you know that that's
- Because even once you know how to use this chart, you're still left wondering how it pulls off its strangest bit of witchcraft: trapping infinity inside a finite circle. Well, to understand that, we have to go back 100 years to the origins of this chart.
But I will say that I do believe that it wasn't a 30, one-third down the line, because America was different. So in some finite time, the astronaut will actually fall in.
theory, where we evaluate all of the different options and pick the best one. We have finite bandwidth, so we have to use shortcuts, essentially, to make decisions. And we often use good enough shortcuts or we satisfice instead of maximizing or maybe what we'd call optimizing.
options are finite and therefore uh it is not unreasonable for Russian people
But if you listen to the language of so many leaders, it becomes very clear that they actually don't know the game they're playing in. are playing with a finite mindset, an infinite game.
I know you like finite .
I'm finite . I'm finite .
Everything is finite . It is the truth.
It is finite , for sure.
That is kind of finite .
there's a finite amount of pages.
And then for non-finite forms, these are things like if you're going to have a separate infinitive or if you're going to have a participle
There's obviously a finite time of just how many hours are there in the day.
and in a more finite level to support what's happening here in the State of Colorado?
have a finite amount of time with someone you want to make sure you have that focus there.
And that's a finite amount of time.
But they have a finite budget, and they have to work within that.
But there's a finite probability and risk produced by the debris at the altitudes
And there is a finite probability of impact with the station.
that power is finite and zero sum and there's no point in getting involved because the game is rigged and I can't do anything and I'm voiceless,
The rules are changeable, and the objective is to keep the game in play to perpetuate the game. When you pit a finite player versus a finite player, the system is stable. Baseball is stable. When you hit an infinite player versus an infinite player, the system is also stable, like the Cold War was stable
Why? They're breaking the company along the way. The point is the finite player only looks at these discrete moments in time, and the infinite player is much more preoccupied with the trend of things.
and they can't afford to play the infinite game. It's finite . You have to keep injecting it.
and they can't afford to play the infinite game. There are always finite games within the infinite.
It is a finite amount of time that you can actually have in this documentary, and there were over 200 hours of activity in the courtroom.
is not actually finite .
there's a finite amount of space in the human brain for memory because old stuff is moving now it is new stuff is moving
this planet with finite resources. Yet we don't respect those resources because we create things and we're an incredibly complex species as I think I've
But money is finite in its worth.
Because it's a finite problem.
I assume all of you guys have worked in teams in your life. Because people have a finite capacity to compute, firms also have a finite capacity to compute.
Because it's finite . But if you create an interesting video that goes viral, suddenly people will get this vicariously through other people experiencing it.
the resources-- finite amount of resources in this case-- we can basically check this worst-case scenario off our list.
at a certain finite time in the past and actually calculate when that was.
But it is a finite number.
And being finite , it means that the further out you look in the universe, the further back in time you see.