{"id":36,"date":"2012-06-11T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectionatic.org\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-06-11T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T09:32:00","slug":"a-game-theoretic-perspective-on-the-current-voting-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectionatic.org\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"A Game Theoretic Perspective on the Current Voting Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>I am here trying to expose the rational reasons of my choice. My decision is to invalidate my vote in the upcoming elections.\n<\/div>\n<div>You have a rational player (lets call him S) who is now  entrusted with  setting a up game were different parties compete. S has a  vested interest in the outcome of the game. S would have to be  incredibly altruistic not to make the rules of the game favor the  outcome he desires. <\/div>\n<div>\n<br \/>You have also have another player, (lets call him M) who has been g<span>etting  small positive payoffs from S. M was foolish enough to think he could  outmaneuver S at his own game. In fact, M was directly responsible for  putting S in a position to put down the rules of the game and was  immediately given small rewards, while another player (named R) objected  strongly.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div><span><br \/> In strategic interactions between S and R, S has shown  himself to be completely non-altruistic and R suffered severe negative  payoffs. In strategic interactions between M and R, M has shown himself  to be also completely non-altruistic and R suffered negative payoffs,  but not as severe as when it interacted with S.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/> R is now asked to  support either M or S in a game in which he was eliminated. The outcome  of that game will determine who gets to interact strategically with R in  the future. R&#8217;s support for either player is costly (i.e. it is an acknowledgment of the rules of\u00a0 the game). R knows that S  will not be fully eliminated under any outcome. R calculates that his  expected payoff is unlikely to change under any outcome. R knows that although long ago his payoffs were strongly correlated with M, but that has ceased to be the case. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>R decides not  play this game.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-ft='{\"tn\":\"=\",\"type\":20}'><button data-ft='{\"tn\":\">&#8220;,&#8221;type&#8221;:22}&#8217; name=&#8221;like&#8221; title=&#8221;Like this item&#8221; type=&#8221;submit&#8221;><span><\/span><\/button><\/span>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am here trying to expose the rational reasons of my choice. My decision is to invalidate my vote in the upcoming elections. You have a rational player (lets call him S) who is now entrusted with setting a up game were different parties compete. S has a vested interest in the outcome of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,37,3,14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-egypt","category-game-theory","category-muslim-brotherhood","category-revolution","category-scaf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectionatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectionatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectionatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectionatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectionatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/perfectionatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectionatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectionatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectionatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}