Strategy & Games. Chess shaped the West's strategic thinking for >500 years. Scripted openings, dramatic midgames, regicide. Go shaped the East's thinking for >2,000 years. Spatial patterns, patience, area-capturing. Which game gives better intuitions for defeating a pandemic?
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Poker.
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People, governments and politicians do.
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Poker is always the answer. Making decisions with imperfect information, thinking probabilistically, developing long-term strategies, identifying weak/unskilled players, embracing humility and variance, commitment to lifelong learning of a game you can never master.
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Backgammon
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@primalpoly apparently this virus does bluff though no one is talking about it.Testing of asymptomatic people has a false positive rate of 80.33% https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32133832Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I like the idea of a game with incomplete information though.
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