270. Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrationality (Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli)
The Michael Shermer Show
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Cultural evolution can lead to these prigmatic truths. If you hold this belief, ok, you'll have an inaccurate view of the world, but you'll at least end up with healthy babies. And another notion that we mentioned before is, sometimes have inaccurate beliefs because of the way the social incentive structure works. You don't want to get burnt at the stake, or you want to persuade other people,. Like whitch crazes, how they spread hat around the time that science was coming on line as a strong institution of determining what's true. i wonder if there 's a kind of certain game theory, game theoretic logic to my going along with agreeing that that woman over there
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