Scott Moss wrote:
> Is this a joke?
No, NECSI has been giving these awards since 2000. Stu Kauffman got the
first one.
> Can anyone in his or her right mind believe that Simon's work was either
> informed by or supported game theory in general or Nash equilibrium in
> particular?
I think Simon's view of game theory can be described as "jaundiced", so
the association is perhaps unusual. But I don't know for a fact that any
relation to Simon's work is a prerequisite for NECSI's award -- maybe
they're like Nobel prizes, either with trust money set up by Simon or
simply named after him by NECSI's board.
> I would happily stand a drink for the person suggesting the most
> trenchant and/or amusing link between the work of Herbert Simon and John
> Nash -- or, indeed, between Nash equilibrium and complexity. The prize
> to be awarded at the World Conference on Social Simulation.
Consider a game in which the players are the members of the US labor
force. Can this game have a Nash equilibrium? Derive and explain your
answer without using any concepts from complexity theory.
-- Mark
Mark P. Line
Polymathix
San Antonio, TX
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