People can be rational once the true game is identified; irrational-looking dating behavior follows status-maximizing incentives.
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People can be rational once the true game is identified; irrational-looking dating behavior follows status-maximizing incentives.
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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..."
"Number one, she may be the ugliest woman in the world, but she's still like, you know what? It's still my choice whether or..."
"...the theory is that history is a progress towards enlightenment, to rationality, to truth, and to justice. So... The inevitability of history, of human..."
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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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