Playing the Wrong Game

Antirandomizing the Wrong Game

Playing Against the Game

Thepaperfirstoutlinesadifferentiationofplay/game-motivationsthatinclude‘negative’attitudes againsttheplay/gameitselflikecheatingorspoilsporting.Thisproblemisofparticularimportance inconcernoflearninggamesbecausetheyarenot‘played’forthemselves–atleastinthefirstplace –butduetoaninstructionalscheme.Sotheyarelikelytoprovokeresistanceamongt...

The Game-Playing Technique

In the game-playing technique, one writes a pseudocode game such that an adversary’s advantage in attacking some cryptographic construction is bounded above by the probability that the game sets a flag bad. This probability is then upper bounded by making stepwise, syntactical refinements to the pseudocode—a chain of games. The approach was first used by Kilian and Rogaway (1996) and has been u...

Playing the wrong game: An experimental analysis of relational complexity and strategic misrepresentation

It has been suggested that players often produce simplified and/or misspecified mental models of strategic decisions (Kreps, 1990). We submit that the relational structure of players’ preferences in a game is a source of cognitive complexity, and may be an important driver of such simplifications. We provide a classification of order structures in two-person games based on the properties of mon...

Playing the Festschrift Game

There are not many people who can be said to have influenced and impressed researchers in so many disparate areas and language-geographic fields as Lauri Carlson, as is evidenced in the present Festschrift. Lauri’s insight and acute linguistic sensitivity and linguistic rationality have spawned findings and research work in many areas, from non-standard etymology to hard-core formal linguistics...