Comment from Rick Sheppe
Time October 29, 2012 at 6:19 pm

A very informative interview on a fascinating subject. Thank you, Markus! Dr. Murphy’s examples and explanations were as impressive as his willingness to answer some of your questions with “I don’t know.” His students are lucky to have such an expert teacher.

Comment from MaNo
Time October 29, 2012 at 7:24 pm

Thank you for your nice comment :-)

Markus

Comment from Joseph
Time October 29, 2012 at 9:21 pm

Great episode. I’m not much of a game theory fan, but I’m always down for mathematics. I love your curiosity Markus. It really shows and can make just about any topic interesting.

Comment from MaNo
Time October 29, 2012 at 9:26 pm

That’s a nice comment, thanks :-)

Markus

Comment from Geoffrey
Time November 2, 2012 at 3:34 am

Thought I would put the older podcasts aside and listen to this recently published podcast in order to get in sync, so to speak.

This was an interesting and diverse topic. Pleased to hear significant concepts like the Nash equilibrium, zero-sum, symmetry and scenarios like the prisoner’s dilemma and the dictators game discussed in a way that even I could understand.

For one reason or another, I’m having a close look at the Cuban missile crisis at the moment. I wasn’t aware that it was 50 years ago to the day when the world moved back from the edge of a full scale nuclear war. It was interesting to hear parts of your talk alluding to the use of game theory.

Towards the end it was also disheartening, in a way, to hear the rationalisation of and moral hazards like bankruptcy. Perhaps we will, through game theory, foresee the consequences of immoral behaviour and introduce more ethical standards through social reform (eg environment, famine, rights etc).

Comment from MaNo
Time November 11, 2012 at 6:43 pm

What I find interesting is that there’s an actual science (game theory) that can replicate and explain some of the “idiotic” things going on in today’s world. In my opinion, we first have to understand what’s going on so we can then try to change some of these mechanisms so we can *then* try to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Markus

Comment from Theo
Time December 2, 2012 at 8:48 am

The episode was very interesting. For all who are interested and want to know more of the thema in Coursera a course about game theory is starting soon, in January https://www.coursera.org/course/gametheory

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Comment from MaNo
Time December 3, 2012 at 3:41 am

Thanks for the Coursera tipp!

Markus

Comment from Michael
Time December 4, 2012 at 8:44 pm

Mir persönlich gefällt eher hochwertiges Holzspielzeug.

Comment from MaNo
Time December 4, 2012 at 9:32 pm

Was willst Du denn damit sagen?

Markus