[FRIAM] Somethint to talk about tomorrow

[Douglas Roberts]

*Everybody* has MS Doc format (+/-) available to them, for free:

http://docs.google.com/

I use it all the time.

--Doug

-- 
Doug Roberts, RTI International
droberts at rti.org
doug at parrot-farm.net
505-455-7333 - Office
505-670-8195 - Cell

On 6/9/07, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:
>
> Is there any way we could pass around pdf's or just text papers we
> share with each other?  I no longer have MS Office available, nor
> does anyone in my household, and I would like to avoid getting it.  I
> think I got the right stuff via textedit, I attach the pdf, but I'm
> not sure I got it all.
>
>
>
>
>      -- Owen
>
>
> On Jun 7, 2007, at 11:35 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > Every once in a while, I run into a passage so sharp and well
> > written that it rattles my whole world. The passage is from
> >
> > Bendor and Swistak (1998) 'Evolutionary Equilibria:
> > CharacterizationTheorems and their Implications', Theory and
> > Decision, 45, 99-159.  ( from pages 113-116]
> >
> >
> >
> > For anybody doing game theory modelling it's a must read.  It also
> > demonstrates (once again) the dangers of intentional-mentalistic
> > theoretical terms (in this case, "strategy") in modelling
> > exercises.  The profound point for me is that selection for a
> > behavior performed under a particular set of circumstances is NOT
> > selection for a strategy, unless another strategy exists in the
> > population that does not perform that behavior under those
> > circumstances.  (Following the model of words like "isozyme", let
> > us say that two strategies that produce the same behaviors under a
> > given set of circumstances as "isoethic" (from ethology).  and say
> > that the same two strategies may be "alloethic" under a different
> > set of circumstances. )  Selection cannot occur between two
> > strategies UNLESS they are alloethic.   Whether two strategies are
> > allo- or iso-ethic is not solely a propery of them or even  of the
> > relation between them but a property of the relation between them
> > in relation to what other strategies are within the population!
> > The thing about this way of thinking that makes my palms sweat is
> > suddently makes Waddington's concept of Genetic Assimilation
> > totally transparent.  Before the heat shock procedure, there was
> > isoethic variation in wing-formation genes; in the context of heat
> > shock, this variation became alloethic, and could be selected.
> >
> > ANYWAY.  Dont read thompson, read the damn passage.
> >
> > NIck
> > <Doc5.doc>
> > ============================================================
> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20070609/9b15fe55/attachment.html