On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 07:19:37AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > Russell, > > Yes, I'm familiar with that and just posted a journal reference to it. But > it's an incorrect understanding. What is really important here is RATIONAL > UNpredictability, not IRrationality. > > This is just rationally outsmarting your competitor by figuring out what he > thinks you are going to do and doing otherwise. This is a rational, not an > irrational, decision making process. It's exhibiting superior intelligence, > superior rationality.
That is rational. But if you can't afford the brainpower, another good strategy is to act irrationally. > > On the other hand there are also cases, e.g. which way a pursued prey > turns, which are not necessarily calculated this way but just by choosing a > direction quasi-randomly and this does make it more difficult for the > pursuing predator to predict. But this is NOT IRrationality, it's just a > RATIONAL quasi-random process. > Random, quasirandom and pseudorandom processes are all irrational, by definition. There is no rational process involved in making the choice. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
