Episode 19: The Trusting Game

Two Bit Geeks

A happy birthday to Curiosity, a stellar job opportunity, and a deep dive into Nicky Case’s game of trust, compassion and resilient cooperation—just don’t tailgate Tom.

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Warming up with Space [00:00]

• Curiosity sings like that
• NASA’s Planetary Protection wants you!

The main event: playing with Trust [05:45]

• The Evolution of Trust (Nicky Case)
• Game Theory 101: The Prisoner’s Dilemma explained
• The WWI Christmas Truce
• TBG Ep. 11: Creating trust in a campaign (13:16)
• The Adventure Zone’s Suffering Game arc
• Resilient Cooperation is where it’s at (Andrew Mao, Lili Dworkin, Siddharth Suri & Duncan J. Watts)
• TBG Ep. 7: Tom forgives the highway cheaters (38:03)
• The Simple Solution to Traffic (CGP Grey)
• Ped’s interpretation of Utilitarianism makes him not like it at all
• Forbidden Island: a pretty cool non-zero-sum board game
• 12.5 years of Diplomacy - nice!

Music by Lee Rosevere (CC by 4.0)