If you were to train someone to think in positive-sum, what would you do?
Places where success is zero-sum don't just train people to think that way. The people they attract are already disproportionately likely to prefer such games.
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I would encourage them to build new things that make people's lives better. Corollary: Quit Goldman Sachs.
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Do you have a working example out of curiosity?
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Trading.
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Seems like it's easy to get skilled people to work very hard for a few top spots if you offer 'prestige' in return. If I remember correctly, you may have a quote about this in an essay...
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Somehow it is gresham's law. Isn't it?
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or they have no clue, like most wonnabe-actors
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Most games aren’t inherently zero sum. Most games have zero-sum and non-zero-sum strategies. People are conditioned to assume the only available set of strategies to draw from are zero sum. Many don’t see cooperative opportunities because they assume everything is combative.
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I’m not a game theory expert but it seems the issue is when zero sum thinking gets you closer to the Nash solution, or is the Nash solution. Positive sum strategies can be suboptimal or leave you exposed.
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I agree. This principle, in general, is why cause and effect are so hard to distinguish in human behavior.
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