It is regrettable that many Western commentators repeated Putin’s narrative that the problem came from an aggressive NATO expansion aimed at encircling Russia.
Time for a reset of narratives. Here are some simple insights, informed by our work on the game theory of alliances. 🧵
Amazing: a trail of termites (up) and a trail of ants (down), both protected by a row of their soldiers in a stand-off, without fighting.
from @Mehdi_Moussaid
This is a black and white photograph. Only the lines have colour.
What you “see” is what your 🧠 predicts the reality to be, given the imperfect information it gets.
Brilliant:
When the euro bank notes were designed, they used European-style bridges which were *non-existing*, not to have to choose between countries.
The Dutch town of Spijkenisse claimed them all for the Netherlands by building them on a waterway.
- Senator: Would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?
- Zuckerberg: Eh... No
- Senator: I think that maybe is what this is all about. Your right to privacy.
Somebody did a simulation of a giant 🍌 orbiting around the 🌍 at the distance of the ISS.
And, surprisingly, it challenges our intuitions of how orbiting objects would look like in the sky.
This 1944 CIA memo, on how to infiltrate an organisation and make it dysfunctional, is amazing.
Worth framing in the coffee room of every company.
ht @esportslaw
Cats can also be game theorists.
Problem: coordination game. A resource can only be accessed by one player at any given moment.
Solution (when game lasts long enough): turn-taking strategy.
How it is enforced: emergence of a norm of reciprocal sharing.
