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#608 Moshe Hoffman & Erez Yoeli - Hidden Games; Game Theory and Irrational Human Behavior

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Why Do We Tendent to Be Oblivious to Our Own Motivations and Incentives?

Game theory applies to any setting where what's often all depends on what others are including these settings wher were not consciously behaving strategically. But bt, weare a non conscious muna moral intuitionsand other intuitions have been, havebeen shapedhe social setin. In the book, you talk about learning, and more specifically, you say that learning shapes beliefs and tastes rather than just shaping desired behaviors directly. Why do we tend to be oblivious to our own motivations and incentives? I'm so so i guess that's a tolk provoking question, and we should maybe think about it a little bit more. We're very, very gooda kind of reverse a geneering

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