truth about game theory, bad or good for the world?

[Quill01]

If I put this topic into the wrong section of this forum, well then my apologies, I am not sure where i should post this. I haven't really discussed this in years so my memory may be a bit fuzzy but what I remember is that game theory was created by or implemented into society by rich elitist's in the 1950s witch changed the world or the way in witch people view the world where everything or almost everything is like a videogame or sports competition and that its not even a science at all. It's not scientific and doesn't have anything to do with evolution nor part of evolution. This might sound like a conspiracy theory but its not. its very real as a guy on a older atheist forum I was a part of who went by the name of joe bloe informed me of this game theory when i discussed with him in a thread I made about life in todays world seeming like one big football game or everything in life is like a game in this world. If any of you have never herd of game theory or don't know what its about, just type in game theory on wikipidea search and it should pull up a article on the subject with lots of info. I would post the wiki article here but I don't want to break the rule that I did last time or at least I haven't earned the privilege yet on this forum. My view on game theory was that its bad or sinister because it makes everything in life a game or sport, even war fare where you have different countries fighting and killing each other to be the best or number 1 top country in the world rather then over conflict, resources, religion and hatred. Your job is a sport, game or competition, sex, raising children, taking out the trash, eating, education, philosophy or anything you can think of is a game. It is a hierarchial system much like dictatorships today or in midevil christianity as well. When you think about it on a scale like that it is more scary and insane then any horror movie you might imagine. You have winners and losers in everything rather then people living there lives or living there lives outside of games doing what they want to do or not do what they don't want to do without the winner or loser label attached to it. It even happens among other atheists or non believers calling each other losers or winners.

Anyway so I contemplated a little more about it recently and thought this: Is it bad if it makes human society's less violent and more piecefull? more wealthy? less war? does it reduce violence by turning everything into a game? if that's true then wouldn't it be good or partly good?

What is the truth about this?

[Silver]

I think you mean life as a simulation theory.

And this thread probably belongs in pseudoscience rather than gaming.

Also, I believe there is no actual truth to this particular theory

[DocIllinois]

A hypothesis wherein those who believe in it simply (and strongly) assume (with faith) that which they have to prove distinctly belongs in pseudoscience, I think.

But hey, I hear Elon Musk believes in it; isn't that reason enough in the absence of enough reason?

[Fireball]

OP- by the time you study enough mathematics to understand game theory in an intelligent way, a lot of the woo in your post will have been pulled off your eyes.

[no one]

The world is indifferent to human endeavors.

[Brian37]

When I go on and on, and I do. And I have been on this site for ages, I don't have giant walls of text.

Peace=good

War=bad

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The world is indifferent to human endeavors.

The universe has never and will never give a shit about one species.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If I put this topic into the wrong section of this forum, well then my apologies, I am not sure where i should post this. I haven't really discussed this in years so my memory may be a bit fuzzy but what I remember is that game theory was created by or implemented into society by rich elitist's in the 1950s witch changed the world or the way in witch people view the world where everything or almost everything is like a videogame or sports competition and that its not even a science at all. It's not scientific and doesn't have anything to do with evolution nor part of evolution. This might sound like a conspiracy theory but its not. its very real as a guy on a older atheist forum I was a part of who went by the name of joe bloe informed me of this game theory when i discussed with him in a thread I made about life in todays world seeming like one big football game or everything in life is like a game in this world. If any of you have never herd of game theory or don't know what its about, just type in game theory on wikipidea search and it should pull up a article on the subject with lots of info. I would post the wiki article here but I don't want to break the rule that I did last time or at least I haven't earned the privilege yet on this forum. My view on game theory was that its bad or sinister because it makes everything in life a game or sport, even war fare where you have different countries fighting and killing each other to be the best or number 1 top country in the world rather then over conflict, resources, religion and hatred. Your job is a sport, game or competition, sex, raising children, taking out the trash, eating, education, philosophy or anything you can think of is a game. It is a hierarchial system much like dictatorships today or in midevil christianity as well. When you think about it on a scale like that it is more scary and insane then any horror movie you might imagine. You have winners and losers in everything rather then people living there lives or living there lives outside of games doing what they want to do or not do what they don't want to do without the winner or loser label attached to it. It even happens among other atheists or non believers calling each other losers or winners.

Anyway so I contemplated a little more about it recently and thought this: Is it bad if it makes human society's less violent and more piecefull? more wealthy? less war? does it reduce violence by turning everything into a game? if that's true then wouldn't it be good or partly good?

What is the truth about this?

This is the first time I've ever heard game theory talking about in this way. It's not a conspiracy theory, it's the mathematical analysis of how people act (or don't act) in strategic situations. There's nothing sinister about it.

Boru

[brewer]

I think any good or evil would be produced by the practitioner, not the theory.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I think the good or evil would be produced by the practitioner, not the theory.

Kind of like, well, everything. Yup.

Boru

[tackattack]

I don’t think he’s talking life as a simulation, I think OP is talking about gamification strategy taken to the extreme. It is manipulative. I’m not sure I’ve seen it applied outside business.