r002
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2 years ago This is cool! Thank you for sharing! I checked out Evolution of Trust and that was neat! (I bet on Copy Kitten in the end and that worked! 😄) It reminded me of Joyeux Noel and a couple of RadioLab episodes I heard ages ago:
- https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/golden-rule
- https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/104010-one-good-deed-deserves-another
- A quick written summary of the episode (the algo names are amusing! 😂): https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerkay/2011/12/19/generous-tit-for-tat-a-winning-strategy/?sh=2a80f84266eb
There are tons of Prisoner's Dilemma-type models that I've learned over the years, each with their own unique variations and added constraints/assumptions/etc, but I think the favorite take I've heard is from Shane Parrish's The Knowledge Project:
- https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/jim-collins-2/ (I think it's this episode)
The basic gist somewhere in there is Parrish asks Collins about trust and betrayal at some point and Collins responds with a takeaway that over his entire life, he's basically learned to always err on the side of trust ("trust by default") because the upside from an "opening bid of trust" that succeeds always far exceeds the downside from an opening bid of distrust. Sure, one might get betrayed/cheated but those consequences are miniscule (especially in early days of a relationship) compared to the costs of what might have otherwise been a wonderful/fruitful/invaluable/lifelong relationship otherwise. Basically, the opportunity cost of foregoing a possibly invaluable relationship is just --basically by definition-- infinitely asymmetrically costly, if that makes sense.
Now obviously, one needs to watch out for bad actors. But Collins's take is my favorite; it just rings so true! And also jives with my own life experience too. (IIRC, there's also the same idea of "being charitable and generous", similar to the "mistakes" section in the EoT game.) I absolutely love this though; thank you again so much for sharing! 🙏♥
Today, I downloaded Anaconda and started working with a Jupyter notebook on my local machine. I've been using it to work through a Real Python tutorial on exploring data with pandas. It's been really interesting.
Codecademy, Dataquest, and Datacamp are all running half-off sales for their subscriptions. I snagged Codecademy and Dataquest. Surprisingly, the Codecademy curriculum is really good. I've enjoyed what I've done so far. They had a link to this really cool data science project. @r002 I think you'd really be interested in it: The Evolution of Trust.