People often try to sell me on the idea of "Infinite Game" theory. When I don't buy into it, they assume it's because I don't understand it. I understand it just fine. My problem with infinite game theory is it assumes that our relationship to other humans should be fundamentally adversarial.
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Maybe check out the books:
- Serviceberry (Kimmerer)
- Miraculous Abundance (Gruyer)
Happy to chat about or point towards more or adjacent topics if you're interested.
Abundance is a socialist ideal
I prefer the abundance economy over the scarcity one hands down - pushing towards that should be our goal
Like, game theory is basically just, "yeah, we gotta figure Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra every day" but in capitalism, transactions are all.
If anything it proposes that there’s no such things as winners and losers in an infinite game. The point is to learn.
IMO the philosophy is attempting to change the thinking so there is less suffering.
But alas, suffering is inevitable because humans are highly flawed.
https://youtu.be/tmusbHBKW84?si=m3U2IUEVLOkh8FS7
I’ve only encounteed James P Carse’s book and found the models interesting, but not adversarial.
I’ve used it to explain to my bosses that cooperative communities are more self-sustaining that competitive ones.
What am I missing?
I see Simon Sinek (bleh) repackaged it into a crap business book. If that’s where adversarial is coming from the that is crap.