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- Adopting beliefs can be a strategy to signal commitment to an in-group https://lionelpage.substack.com/p/what-side-are-you-on 4 comments
- Why reason fails: reason likely did not evolve to help us be right, but to convince others that we are. We do not use our reasoning skills as scientists but as lawyers. https://lionelpage.substack.com/p/why-reason-fails 7 comments cogsci
- Why the management of companies and administrations is dysfunctional in so many ways: the pervasive principal-agent problem. https://lionelpage.substack.com/p/why-you-are-frustrated-by-your-organisation 25 comments economics
- The game theory behind petrol price cycles https://lionelpage.substack.com/p/the-game-theory-behind-the-price 6 comments economics
- Ball tracking data reveals that professional tennis players' strategies are very close to the predictions of game theory when serving and allocating effort across points. https://lionelpage.substack.com/p/anyone-for-tennis-and-game-theory 11 comments tennis
- Introduction to Game theory: Minimax and Nash equilibrium explained simply, with the historical context of their emergence in economics. https://lionelpage.substack.com/p/time-for-some-game-theory 2 comments economics
- What is a cognitive "bias"? Behavioral economics has found a long list of biases, often giving the impression that human cognition is fundamentally flawed. But the focus on biases, which are edge cases, misses the fact that the features of human cognition are typically adaptive and efficient. https://lionelpage.substack.com/p/what-is-a-bias 8 comments cogsci
- The hot hand was never a fallacy. Psychologists assumed too quickly it was an illusion. https://lionelpage.substack.com/p/the-hot-hand-fallacy 2 comments truereddit