Glossary
Jiang uses it to mean a state in which all players maximize their outcome, represented by rank-matched marriages.
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Nash equilibrium
Jiang uses it to mean a state in which all players maximize their outcome, represented by rank-matched marriages.
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If each player individually tries to maximize the dating game, the top male and later imitators can end up worse off; cooperation is the route to stable pairings.
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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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"...word in game theory we use for this is called the Nash equilibrium. Nash equilibrium just means that you always reach a state in..."
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"And according to evolutionary psychology, all five of these females should try to procreate with number five, okay? But we know you can't do..."
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"There's not much difference between four and five. So I'll just go. I'll marry this guy, right? So number four is gone. And number..."
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"...this. Okay? In real life, no one actually follows this rule. Nash equilibrium is just a theory we made up. But in real life,..."
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"...sense, right? So, in theory, in theory, we should follow the Nash Equilibrium. But in real life, what happens is this. All the girls..."
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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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