chimpanzee
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On personhood, in the Ramayana and in court.
I’ve been working on a modern retelling of the Ramayana. Mostly because the myth provided a framework for approaching a number of issues that I wanted to discuss, like free will: numerous commentators think the Ramayana is primarily a story about fate, and the structure of Valmiki’s telling, in which an episode of the gods…
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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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