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113 | Cailin O'Connor on Game Theory, Evolution, and the Origins of Unfairness

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Evolutionarily Stable Strategy?

An evolutionarily stable strategy is related to the same as the nath equilibrium for these ganes. There's a set of conditions that you can ask about pay offs that will tell you whether a certain strategy is evolutionarily stable. So things like, does it do better against itself than other things do against it? If so, it's going to be stable because other variants or mutans, are going to die off when they enter the pop cause they just won't do as well against this kind of dominant strategy that exists. Or if mutons do kind of equally well against the existing strategy, how do the mutins do against themselves versus the kind of dominant strategies? And so you

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