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A Poker Pro Explains Game Theory: Liv Boeree

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The Mollock God: A Study of Negative Games

Allan Ginsberg's poem, "Howell Am," discusses the idea of a "mollock"./nA force that drives emergence and complexity, but also has the potential to be destructive./nScott Alexander wrote a book about the same idea, called "Meditations on Mollock," which was the first time that the idea had been explored in detail./nAlexander related mollock to game theory and talked about how it seems to be this sort of "te force" that drives emergence and complexity.

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