You've probably seen Pi visualized with color [Flickr]. Now, you can play around with it here (change color of digits) : http://www.endofart.net/pi/ [Java applet] - Thanks Martin!
Yeah, I thought it was a stereogram too. Took me a bit to realize it was just a visual representation of pi by assigning each pixel a color corresponding to the appropriate digit (as opposed to a stereogram picture of pi itself).
Wow. Nick directly got to the core of the matter, namely that it's a thing of trust, and he encoded it accordingly for his opponent by instantly picking (well, announcing to pick) the worst outcome and just directly asking Ibrahim to trust him. What a brilliant solution to the dilemma! Well, not a solution, but rather a nifty little "deciding aid" for his opponent. Nice to see a con turn out in a way that benefits both the conman and his "victim".
I wonder if Nick was familiar with game theory or if it just was the first solution that intuitively occurred to him. If it's the latter, that would really be remarkable, wouldn't it?
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--TwoDragons
Why not just call it what it is? The chicken game (or hawk-dove game)?
That would require extra research -- and more than I have time for.
Why not just call it what it is? The chicken game (or hawk-dove game)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(game)
And then sometimes people don't share. Can you guess which one is going to steal $160,000?
I wonder if Nick was familiar with game theory or if it just was the first solution that intuitively occurred to him. If it's the latter, that would really be remarkable, wouldn't it?