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Game theory is great for predicting the behavior of game theorists (see telecom auctions).

This is fun, maybe I can get my points into negative territory!

I'm sorry, people are free to post right-wing propaganda, but not free to comment on it?

Cato will never go bankrupt 'cos the wingnut welfare don't stop.

If the problem you're addressing is a lack of right-wing sites made by insane cranks, mission accomplished.

You guys know the mises.org folks are a bunch of racists, right?

A demogrant and a NIT are different ideas.

It's a great book, and of all the game theory books I've seen it's the easiest and most enjoyable to read (not that it's easy).

Don't everybody gonna get hung up on the $250,000 demogrant. Bowles is a super interesting thinker (same for his frequent co-author, Herb Gintis). Bowles (and Gintis) are trying to synthesize agent-based modeling, evolutionary game theory, behavioral economics, mainstream economics together with the other social sciences. It's an ambitious project and absolutely necessary.

Come to think of it, ff there's one economist who would appeal to functional programming eccentrics and polymaths it'd be Bowles. His papers are pretty readable for non-economists so if you're curious check out his homepage.

I love love love screen, but ctrl-a is a terrible binding. ctrl-] works well for me.

I'm going to check out this tmux thing.

I wonder if we can get some posts about death panels on HN while we're at it.

As if all the increase-your-productivity/get-rich-quick self-help twaddle wasn't bad enough, now there's a notorious internet racist at the top of HN.

Anybody know a tech news site that sticks to tech?