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The macro picture of a society: demographics, economy, politics, and religion.
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superstructure
The macro picture of a society: demographics, economy, politics, and religion.
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Glossary
The big-picture conditions, including population, wealth, enemies, demographics, economics, culture, politics, and religion, that determine the game being played.
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When asked what caused the transformation, Jiang answers by invoking superstructure, defined as the macro picture of society: demographics, economy, politics, and religion.
model
Jiang says player interests come from the superstructure of society and culture, but game theory also has to see that each player is simultaneously playing several other games through several identities.
definition
Superstructure determines the nature of the game; Jiang defines it as the big-picture composition of demographics, economics, culture, politics, religion, technology, and competition.
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"...Okay. So what we discussed last class is the idea of superstructure, right? Superstructure. Sorry. Superstructure is just the macro picture of a society...."
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"So you mentioned that earlier, like the purpose of education are that three things, but now schools don't do that. So what caused the..."
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"So, in the future, will we learn more about how do we find out what causes different stakeholders to have different interests? Like, in..."
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"...come from? Okay? And, I mean, the easy answer is the superstructure of society. Okay? People are responding to their culture. But in game..."
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"...answer is because the game changes over time according to the superstructure of society. Okay? The superstructure. The superstructure is what determines the nature..."
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"...no competing villages against them. Okay? So that's one kind of superstructure. The early superstructure of human society. Okay? Then you have maybe growing..."
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"...I going to want to teach well? Okay? So it's a superstructure of society. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Any more questions?..."
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"...places around the world. And it has to do with the superstructure of society. Okay? But what, but I mean like, the point of..."
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"...each other. The world is basically peaceful. Okay? And according to superstructure the game is going to change. So let's go back to the..."
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"...sex in order to maintain social cohesion. Okay? Now in a superstructure number two there's no dating either. Why? Because this society is in..."
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"...collapsing. So in other words what this really is okay these superstructures it tells us the life cycle of a civilization. Right? So this..."
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"...the rules and incentives which will give you insight into the superstructure so that you can figure out where it came from and then..."
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School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
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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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