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Humans are pretty good at human games

Jan 22, 2023

Big brains for game-theoretic competition

It is known that such a big brain is due to the Red Queen competition between individuals that lead us to get better at winning human games: persuading, deception, etc.

A major part of our intelligence is for Game Theory (unconsciously).

But is our intelligence adapted to games with other species, extra-terrestrial, as in Dark forest theory?

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