Posted 20 Sep 2012 / 0
The Society Pages “Progressing from game theory to agent based modelling to simulate social emergence” This is a nice albeit pretty choppy explanation for why we should not listen to orthodox/traditional game theorists. The only argument I see missing here is that game theory relies on the assumption of a well-mixed population: even the Prisoner’s Read More
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Emergence, Evolutionary Modeling, Game Theory, Individual-based Models, Spatially Explicit Modeling, Web
Posted 20 Sep 2012 / 0
Public Library of Science ONE “Evolving Righteousness in a Corrupt World” In the race to build the next over-simplified model of cooperative dynamics, it will be interesting to see how the media runs with this one. Is this a “scientists discover the evolutionary rationale for honorable police” moment? I think it is important to take Read More
A Minor Post, Altruism, Articles, Cooperation, Ethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Modeling, Game Theory, Punishment, Social Networks, System Stability
Posted 19 Sep 2012 / 0
The Chronicle of Higher Education “To the Trickster Go the Spoils” I really appreciate that Freeman Dyson acknowledges so clearly in this article that the fact that he has found a deceitful solution to the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma does not warrant radically shifting our understanding of human cooperation. The IPD and other game theory constructs Read More
A Minor Post, Altruism, Cooperation, Evolutionary Modeling, Fluidity of Knowledge, Game Theory, Reciprocity, Web
Posted 17 Jul 2012 / 0
PLoS One “Modeling Collective Animal Behavior with a Cognitive Perspective: A Methodological Framework“
A Minor Post, Behavior, Behavioral Ecology, Cognitive Ability, Evolutionary Modeling, Intelligences, Modeling (General), Neuroscience
Posted 15 Jul 2012 / 0
NetLogo I am reading the new-ish Railsback and Grimm book Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling: A Practical Introduction, and this book is finally compelling me to learn NetLogo. I am pretty excited about its potential for teaching and curious about whether I can use it for research.
A Minor Post, Evolutionary Modeling, Individual-based Models, Spatially Explicit Modeling
Posted 28 Jun 2012 / 1
Last summer I discussed a paper by Rand and Nowak that explored the dynamics of antisocial punishment in groups composed of cooperators, defectors, and loners playing a public goods game. In a conventional public goods game, at least some players must make a contribution in order to reap group reward. Cooperators make that contribution and Read More
A Major Post, Altruism, Articles, Cooperation, Evolutionary Modeling, Game Theory, Punishment
Posted 28 Jun 2012 / 0
Darwinian Conservatism “Does Strong Reciprocity Support a Darwinian Left?” This is a really interesting comparison of the “utopian” and “realist” versions of leftist politics, and of the struggle of thinkers like Singer. What I think needs to be kept in mind is that all these folks are doing more than just trying to produce science Read More
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Evolutionary Modeling, Punishment, Reciprocity, Social Norms
Posted 27 Jun 2012 / 0
Theory, Evolution, and Games Group “Evolution of ethnocentrism in the Hammond and Axelrod model“
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Evolutionary Modeling, Game Theory, Social Networks, Web
Posted 27 Jun 2012 / 0
Theory, Evolution, and Games Group “Bifurcation of cooperation and inviscid ethnocentrism” One of the big dangers of simulation work is that it produces so much data, so it is natural to just code in some analysis algorithms that spit out digested data. But sometimes this analysis can hide interesting results!
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Evolutionary Modeling, Web
Posted 27 Jun 2012 / 0
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences “Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary opponent” An interesting digestion of this paper: Rules of Reason “Tit-for-tat no more: new insights into the origin and evolution of cooperation“
A Minor Post, Articles, Cooperation, Evolutionary Modeling, Game Theory
