Lionel Page
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Lionel Page
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Professor UQ. Director @UQCUBES. Editor JESA. Tweets on economics, psychology, & society. Book: Optimally Irrational, optimallyirrational.com
- Scientist: carefully designs experiment Participant: x.com/Wcwya/status/1…
- 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.
- All co-authors contributed equally.
- 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.
00:00 - 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
- Economists designing institutions for people to make better decisions. 👉 Slow feed bowl People adapting their behaviour accordingly. 👉 Dog
00:00 - 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.
