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A simplified marriage-market game where ranked men and women choose partners under biological, economic, and status incentives.
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dating game
A simplified marriage-market game where ranked men and women choose partners under biological, economic, and status incentives.
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In the dating game example, attractiveness is ranked by genes, wealth, and status.
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Nash equilibrium is described as the state where all players maximize their outcome, but Jiang stresses that real dating behavior does not follow it.
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Modern dating is a status game rather than a sex or procreation game: people seek partners who display or increase their social rank.
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Growing, competitive societies solve reproductive pressure through arranged marriage, while wealthy overpopulated societies produce a dating game where marrying up becomes the path to status.
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"Let's imagine there are five boys and five girls. And they want to get married, okay? So these are the players. And what we're..."
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"What's the minimum? Okay? And then I had the boys and the girls write down a response. The boys were pretty simple, right? Well,..."
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"You have a high status job. You come from a really powerful family, okay? So these are the three criteria that we can use..."
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"So the only way out of this is if they cooperate, okay? And the best way to cooperate is basically five is like, you..."
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"There's a problem with this though. The problem is, in real life, no one does this. Okay? In real life, no one actually follows..."
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"Look at these billionaires, right? Like Elon Musk. How many wives does he have? How many children does he have? Right? All the women..."
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"We know what the players are. The players are doing stupid things. The rules, we know, okay? But incentives is something that we have..."
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"...is the one we live in. And here you have a dating game. Right? Because why? Because the odds of you obtaining status is..."
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"...status is by marrying up. And that's why you have a dating game. A dating game is an opportunity for you to find someone..."
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"...why, remember in our very first class, we talked about the dating game. Right?"
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"...last class in our first class we discussed example of the dating game of why men and women are motivated to behave the way..."
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"...west has done is not only um has it created a dating game where women can choose to have kids but the western world..."
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Game theory begins with a small dating game and ends with a civilizational forecast: when status becomes the prize, love, fertility, policy, and geopolitics all bend around the same zero-sum structure.
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