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On chimpanzees and Nash equilibria.
This is a pretty cool study, I think. Amongst other things, the authors compared the performance of pairs of chimpanzees in a zero-sum game to the performance of human pairs. And they noticed that pairs of chimpanzees typically perform much closer to the Nash equilibria than do human pairs. I do wish the authors had…
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On organ trafficking.
The New York Times has run several features recently discussing organ trafficking from living donors. As in, paying somebody to go under the knife and have an organ cut out in order to give it to you. Typically kidneys, since humans can get by with one but are born with two. And, yes, currently illegal in this…
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