Speaker: Nicholas S. Thompson and an ENDLESS list of BLAMELESS
collaborators.
Title: A behavioral conditioning strategy beats moth in altruist PD games.
Location: 624 Agua Fria conference room. 12:30-1:30p.
Pizza at $2/wedge. Reserve Slices Very Promptly to
[hidden email]
Abstract: For reasons that are not completely clear, the plausibility of
group selected altruism has been seen as inversely related to the success of
reciprocity models in iterated PD games. This linkage is possibly
unfortunate for two reasons (1) the payoff matrices of the traditional PD
game do not fit the pattern of altruist games. Whether this difference is
mathematically important remains to be seen; (2) the structure of Axelrod's
tournament precludes simple behavioral conditioning as an explanation for
altruistic group formation. This preclusion has probably contributed to the
over focus on reciprocity as the principle of group formation.
Despite this hifalutin verbiage, the speaker stipulates that he doesnt know
what the dickens he is talking about and begs for all the help he can get.
Locked
