Humanity: At work

A strategy is an art of providing or devising a plan toward a certain goal. In our everyday life, we go through experiences which involve having to think a lot. There are times that we have to make choices to resolve a problem given. We also may have to think about what is right to do.

                The book Rock, Paper, Scissors accounts for emphasizing the ideas of the game theory. It is a compilation of examples of games related to everyday life, politics, and other situations. These games projects hard decision makings or choices for people involved. The game theory is also said to provide respective consequences on choices. This, in turn helps the people learn and adapt to release themselves from entanglement from these situations.

                Len Fisher takes the reader on a tour of the wonderful, momentous and wise route of the sciences and mathematics. The games devised were intricate and it needs further analysis. The read was fun and interesting. It had shown facts and provided new ways of thinking or perspective on the environment and the situations we may encounter.  

                The book starts on the situation where the Prisoner is in an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes and pressed that the Nash equilibrium is somewhat a trap. It is about being trapped in a matrix. He was in the dilemma of the situation thus, becoming frustrated. The complexity was a good start off of the book though. It hadn’t got most my attention thus I hadn’t really read the whole of the chapter.

                Minimax is a decision rule used in decision theory, game theory, statistics and philosophy for minimizing the possible loss for a worst case scenario (Wikipedia J). The next chapter highlights the rules of fair division and having to maximize the minimum gain. Fisher flashbacks his childhood on how he had gotten into trouble while shooting fireworks and as a consequence, he has to shoot fireworks with his brother.  He thought that the situation he has arrived when he was a kid was a fair application of the minimax principle. Fisher strongly emphasized the protocol of fair and equal division. It is also applied in politics and land invasion and covers by our people of before.

                The next chapter is on where Fisher shows several of the game theory problems. These he called the “seven deadly dilemmas” These are social dilemmas which people don’t tend to cooperate. It is usually damaging and may cause grief, anger and war. It is a free rider issue. We can actually relate to the situations given as if it is true and is going on in our routines. It is somewhat similar to the prisoner’s dilemma as of on chapter one.

                The game rock, paper, scissors is amazingly a game of fairness and no pure strategies involved. It is completely unbiased and is played and applied for fair resolutions. I have realized that conflicts can be resolved by the rock, paper, scissors game. Weirdly thinking, maybe this may have solved solved the world wars, business plans and land “tug of war”.  It may be just a simple game yet it may truly change everything. Seriously.

                The rest of the chapters emphasizes the concept of Cooperation.  People can achieve each one’s trust and to have an effective and equal bargain. It has to do with having to avoid the Prisoner’s trap in his dilemma and other frustrating outcomes. Fisher has stated the concept well and is very inspiring. What interests me is that some of his examples are correlated to nature, science and human routines.

                The game theory shows us how to maximize our gain in situations of great complexity and competitiveness. We all have different perspectives on things. Just as what Fisher has stated, “What’s best for you isn't always what’s best for everyone else, and that discrepancy can ultimately undermine your own self-interest.” Having to have a personal perspective is unique however it may be conflicted by others. However, human are naturally cooperative in most ways. Fisher has emphasized how cooperation helps us evade traps produced by our own selfishness. He also emphasizes that even in the hardest of all circumstances, we may still get through by teamwork, unity and cooperation.