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"The Prisoner’s Dilemma; Colonel Blotto; the Diner’s Dilemma; the Pirate Game — these are the astoundingly cool and frequently counterintuitive puzzles that have perplexed mankind’s silly little irrational and emotionally beholden brains since their conception, or at least since we saw A Beautiful Mind in 2001. To stick with the movie theme, there’s a piece of us that wants to be Rain Man or Good Will — or (be still my beating heart!) Richard Feynman. Why has there never been a biopic on Feynman, perhaps starring Woody Allen? Oh, well, I guess that’s beside the point.
The point is, now you can join these luminaries of rationality. Or at least you can understand why the strongest pirate need only give up two pieces of gold from a 100-dubloon chest in order to avoid being chucked overboard by his four perfectly rational underlings (see Pirate Game above)."
Via EDTECH@UTRGV
