tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post3278836186435551321..comments2024-03-26T19:46:33.565-07:00Comments on Random Walks: The Tragedy of the CommonsJohn Kurmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607323621206823686noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-20288160601863826382016-01-05T12:04:48.572-08:002016-01-05T12:04:48.572-08:00You are correct, sir.You are correct, sir.John Kurmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04607323621206823686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-20170019278766070592016-01-04T18:41:33.688-08:002016-01-04T18:41:33.688-08:00Didn't Dr Seuss explain this in ' The Lora...Didn't Dr Seuss explain this in ' The Lorax'?uglyblackjohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404995571276457138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-57628533646242983212011-06-03T08:21:33.273-07:002011-06-03T08:21:33.273-07:00Ellen, that was a Gahan Wilson cartoon. Not sure i...Ellen, that was a Gahan Wilson cartoon. Not sure if he is still alive, but, yes, anyway, that scenario is pretty much where the sentiment leads us.John Kurmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04607323621206823686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-77929084170918811382011-06-03T06:59:37.479-07:002011-06-03T06:59:37.479-07:00'every man for himself' reminds me reminds...'every man for himself' reminds me reminds me os a cartoon I saw once...one guy armed to the teeth left on the planet with destruction all around him and he says 'I think I won!'ellen abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00535475792150335186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-33404326703841359422011-06-02T16:48:15.346-07:002011-06-02T16:48:15.346-07:00You've also got to ask why the University of C...You've also got to ask why the University of Chicago is still trying to push teh myth of the rational efficient market... that turd won't hunt.<br /><br />The Nash equilibrium, -bria, -bra, is optimal only in non-cooperative games. So as long as you are saying "Fuck You" to everyone else, it's the optimal lose-lose reponse. However, if you go and do something irrational like trust other people, oh, now you've done it. A fucking golden age where they can't jack their splooge on your leg anymore? Uh-uh. Huh. Uh.John Kurmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04607323621206823686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581401473844438605.post-31111052228027557802011-06-02T13:45:29.596-07:002011-06-02T13:45:29.596-07:00I've never quite understood how John Nash'...I've never quite understood how John Nash's paranoid schizophrenic game theory came to be enshrined as the quintessence of libertarian economic theology. <br /><br />Was the contrived threat of "communism" really and truly ever so great as to warrant this deep ideological fuster cluck of a response?<br /><br />Truly an instance of magical thinking for the record books...,CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.com