Machiavelli and Spartan Equality

Opponent Modeling in Machiavelli

Opponent modeling is a technique in computer game-playing which attempts to create a model of an opponent’s strategy. This model can then be used to predict the opponent’s future actions. This paper attempts to apply opponent modeling to the commercial card game Machiavelli, a game containing imperfect information. Neural networks are used to build the models. These neural networks are trained ...

Machiavelli and the liberalism of fear

This article revisits the long-standing question of the relations between ethics and politics in Machiavelli's work, assessing its relevance to the 'liberalism of fear' in particular in the work of Judith Shklar, Bernard Williams and also John Dunn. The article considers ways in which Machiavelli has been a 'negative' resource for liberalism - for instance, as a presumed proponent of tyranny; b...

Coevolution of Deception and Preferences: Darwin and Nash Meet Machiavelli

We develop a framework in which individuals’ preferences co-evolve with their abilities to deceive others regarding their preferences and intentions. Specifically, individuals are characterized by a level of cognitive sophistication and by a subjective utility function. Increased cognition is costly, but higher level individuals are able to completely deceive lower level opponents about their p...

Spartan - 6 FPGA Connectivity

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Dolev-Yao is no better than Machiavelli