Francis Tseng

> the illogic of 200 nation state admirals all trying to steer the spaceship in different directions is made clear through the metaphor i sympathize with this but i wonder...

- anekāntavāda is like an early refutation of the "view from nowhere", the lack/impossibility of which is a [fundamental flaw of big data](http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/view-from-nowhere/) - it's also like an early version...

- **social trap** - when individual decisions aggregate to cause a situatoin that none of the participating individuals want and that is difficult to get out of, e.g. tragedy of...

I have some more general-game related stuff here: https://www.are.na/francis-tseng/world-games the games there are mostly video games though. i have analog strategy games here: https://www.are.na/francis-tseng/analog-strategy-games a couple noteworthy ones are [hex](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GameofHex.html)...

oo those are great @edouerd, i love dwarf fortress - not to go off-topic but one of the coolest things around dwarf fortress is the practice of sharing forts. so...

it could be fun to try and take these "low-level" games (Ultimatum Game etc) and try and develop them into something a little bit more substantial. that might also be...

Session 5 readings: - Adam Curtis' The Trap: Part 1: Fuck You Buddy - overview and a bit of history on game theory, the political context in which it developed...

i think this'd be great! also don't worry about things not being "scholarly" enough :)

timber, and thus forests, were crucial to European states for all sorts of construction or energy (firewood); this one function of trees (and other plant life) came to blur out...

## these first few paragraphs are really reminiscent of the current situation of anti-expert opinion, though the way they write about it sounds condescending/elitist (though a lot of coverage around...