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It’s called the ultimatum game and we know how actual people play it.
You’re given £100, but you have to offer some of it to me. If I don’t accept the offer we all get nothing.
We know, because we’ve played the game a bunch of times, if you’re greedy and don’t offer enough I will punish you. The Dems/Harris was greedy, and as such everyone was punished.
A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink
“I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.
“Thank you,” the KGB says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”
The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”
They expressed sympathy and anger for a white supremacist being killed, but not a school shooting that same day. Fuck 'em
Clearly this is cancel culture gone mad
Respectfully, his last word was:
Ggrrgl
They’re still just dogs. Some I’d trust more, some I’d trust less. I would trust none completely, but they are just dogs.
Source: fostered pitbulls for many years.
Audiobooks and a speaker headband got me back into reading.
If I have problems sleeping at least I get a story out of it. If I’m constantly replaying the same chapter it’s because I’m sleeping well. I’ll do a couple books/month this way.
Yeah, I can understand that, I empathise with the frustration. We’re good.
Can we calm down a little, you don’t need to be so combative.
Those are my words, and that was your inference. “you” was referring to citizens of the United states. I could have made that more clear. I am sorry for that, I can be a not so great communicator at times. You can apologise for calling me a liar now.
With that little distraction dealt with can we discuss the topic civilly? Maybe, we can assume each other are rational human beings, that want similar things, and aren’t out to accuse each other of random shit? Please?
I don’t know what to tell you, I’m not Burt Reynolds. You just accuse people of things whether they’re true or not. I’m not sure why you think it’s okay to lie.
I didn’t accuse you of being a democrat, you just inferred that I did and started calling me a liar. Would you like to get back on topic?
Are you claiming I am a millionaire? Can you present some evidence to that effect? If you’re gonna tilt at windmills this conversation is pointless.
God I hate that Americans have decided that you vote for the person you like rather than vote to stop the worst person.
Turns out game theory [as described in this election] doesn’t describe how people (on aggregate) actually behave. It does describe how some people think people should behave (I may sometimes agree), but not how they actually do.
If I know you rationally follow game theory [as described], I’m going to offer you far less than anyone else because I know game theorists [as…] take any win, no matter how small. Ultimatum game? I offer everyone a 50-50 split, except game theorists, to whom I offer a penny. They’ll take it too.
Dems didn’t appeal to how people actually act, and so you all lost. Their supporters refused to acknowledge the reality of how groups behave, and so you all lost. [“you” means all of America - added for the misunderstanding]
The poor are getting poorer, the rich are getting richer. Somehow, the rich have convinced some of the poor, that the reason they’re getting poorer is because of the other poors (who are also getting poorer).
The audiobook? The answer was contained in your question. The result varied by type of drive though. They improve drivers during boring drives and well:
I thought I saw another study some yesteryear about spacial reasoning tasks demanded by some audiobooks (describing a scene, what a building looks like, where it is etc) impaired spacial reasoning while driving. While music doesn’t use spatial reasoning hardly at at all. That’s why I stopped using audiobooks while driving, but I can’t find it so maybe I’ve been lying to myself all along.
The takeaway: boring drives secondary tasks could be good. Complex drives secondary tasks could be bad. I’ll stick with music but be more readily muting it for potentially interesting interactions. In a use the secondary task to keep focus and identify the hazard, once identified mute secondary task to react to the hazard.
But I play focus games while driving anyway. I don’t indicate out of habit: I reason if there’s someone to indicate to, then decide whether to indicate. I find it forces observations and space/speed reasoning to infer whether my changing direction presents a hazard to someone somewhere.