• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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      It doesn’t study games, it studies competitive systems. Mathematicians chose to call competitive systems games and that was a mistake.

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        And what’s a concise word to describe a system in which participants make decisions within some ruleset where the interaction between each participant’s decisions and the ruleset leads to determining whether each participant wins or loses?