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> … offers a useful economics lesson …

> With talk cheap, the only way to find a traitor is to study who is murdered and banished. One way of solving such a game is known as the “perfect Bayesian equilibrium”.

Great, more propaganda to push pseudoscientific neoclassical economics and neoliberalism policies.

What a load of horse shit. It’s a game. Nothing more. Nothing less. No economic lesson here.

Economist is nothing more than a neoclassical, “trickle down economics” propaganda machine.



I agree. In a short, finite game with limited number of observations -- observation and logic is of little help. Rationally, when presented with unfair/unwinnable rules, the logical thing is to "cheat" or break the rules.

I am interested in what ways players have tried to cheat the game. For example, if I am a faithful, I would mandate that will be no private conversations to minimize the ability of the traitors to communicate and plan. I would enforce a rule that everyone must stay within eyesight of everyone else as much as possible. When people sneak out to have conversations, I would use that as data on who the possible terrorists are.




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