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bob1029yesterday at 4:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

I think a basic overview of game theory should also discuss Pareto optimality to some extent. You can have 100% of participants operating in a locally-ideal way while still creating problems in aggregate.


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SaltyBackendGuyyesterday at 5:23 PM

Tragedy of the commons / bounded rationality for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

perfect-blueyesterday at 5:42 PM

Pareto efficiency is a welfare economics concept. In game theory, the closest you can get to that is a Nash equilibrium.

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