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The telecom war between Reliance Jio and Airtel was only a preamble to the impending battle between Google and Jio. Nitish Kumar broke the mahagathbandhan while seeming to try to bend RJD to his will. All the schmoozing between Trump and Xi hasn’t reduced the North Korean nuclear threat. Could we have predicted these outcomes before they actually happened? Yes we could have—not with IQ or EQ, but with ‘Game Theoretic Quotient’. A new intelligence, a new way of looking at the world. Game Sutra highlights the underlying strategic considerations of entities as diverse as heads of state, bitcoin miners and CEOs of internet companies to explain their decisive choices. Immerse yourself in its heady mix of cogent fact and smart analysis to develop your ‘game theoretic quotient’. Your world will never be the same again.
The Fine Art of Making Threats
The Fine Art of Making Threats
Here, the game-theoretic interpretation of a threat is introduced, and the ways in which a game player can make a threat credible are outlined.
In everyday language, a threat expresses an intention to cause harm to someone else. In game theory, the mere intention to harm someone else is not worthy of being singled out as a strategy for special study, as this may follow naturally from the assumption of rationality, and nothing further need be said. To single out a malefic intention for study under the appellation of a threat, it must satisfy one more condition: It must have the potential to harm the issuer of threat as well. It is only when ...
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