The 36 stratagems of China from a game theory perspective. Professor Christian Rieck explains the mock attack strategy here and says why this strategy is not rational from a game theory perspective.
The "Stratagem of the Beautiful Woman" can be interpreted in very different ways, from irrational to completely rational. This makes it one of the most interesting of China's 36 strategies.
This video is for anyone who wants to get their boss to finally do the right thing. But the trick also works when you finally want to pull yourself together.
How do you hide your plans and other secrets? This stratagem tells you how to make things very easy for yourself and very difficult for your opponent. It's one of the classic stratagems. However, you shouldn't use it when entering the USA.
How should you behave if you are attacked aggressively in public? This "hare and hedgehog" strategy reveals how to turn the opponent's power against himself.
Is buying an SUV just crazy or rational? A game theory analysis shows: It can be completely rational, especially because the pieces are so difficult to park. Another topic: Is the auto industry currently committing evolutionary suicide?
Because of crypto currencies, the discussion has arisen again as to whether money should not be left to market forces and whether legal tender should be dispensed with entirely.
The change between summer time and winter time is not a bureaucratic chicanery, but is due to Europe's geographical location. The EU Commission wanted to be populist here and take up the AfD's demand to abolish the time change.
Due to a nonsensical law in California, the electricity companies constantly turn off the electricity. And that only because the law was designed according to supposed game theory principles to prevent forest fires.
"Your argument is correct, but I don't like the way you talk." How do you avoid this communication trap? This video provides an analysis from a game theory perspective.
To what extent can you outsmart the markets with the help of game theory and how important is it for investors to deal with game theory? The answer to this is in the video.
How did Apple manage to penetrate the German market with Apple Pay even though the banks were actually an insurmountable obstacle? By using the same stratagem that first unified China into one empire.
Constant anger with colleagues or family because no one sticks to agreements? Here I give tips using game theory on how to make agreements that everyone sticks to.
Why can game theory simplify the world so much and what could Warren Buffett have done even better? The answer to these questions lies in defining the strategy that this video is about.
If we save CO2 and become poor as a result, even more greenhouse gases will be pumped into the atmosphere worldwide. A social dilemma cannot be overcome so easily. We have to be smarter about this.
Should you constantly follow rules made up by others? Maybe you should just break the rules for once? Learn to distinguish the good rules from the bad ones here.
Why other countries won't cooperate in saving CO2. Here I discuss several theories of cooperation. Spoiler: Without changing the framework conditions, the cooperation will not work here.
Are school grades fair? What do job references tell us? What do school grades really measure? How do you disguise the meaning of grades? Should grades be subjective?
Judo strategy against strong competitors: Apple specifically uses product deterioration - and thus applies the theory of "disruptive innovation". Its inventor, Clayton M. Christensen, died a few days ago.
How does a virus spread? A mathematical model provides the answer. What do viruses have in common with harmful thoughts? How do you protect yourself from this?
How the Merkel CDU became a gang of thieves and how a handful of conquerors can conquer an entire empire: with Strategy 18. A stratagem is a stratagem, here from the collection of 36 Chinese stratagems.
There is a serious proposal to abolish secret elections - to save democracy. Or should we make the elections even more secret than they are? The answers are in this video, based on game theory.
Life isn't eternal, but we act as if it is. What does this illusion of eternal life mean for our decisions? What is the value of infinity? Why do we so often do the unimportant things?
Arguing because you're at home too much? Argument at work? Arguments often arise because we actually want to cooperate. Here are the game theory backgrounds and ways out.
There is an oil crisis raging that no one has noticed (yet) - what is behind it and what are the consequences for us? The argument refers to Cournot's model, in which suppliers set the quantities and the price is determined accordingly.
Why have the public broadcasters changed their view on face masks? Why hasn't the government stored any? These and many other questions answered quickly.
Is Corona already over? Or are we relaxing the measures too early? Epidemiological models show that the state of emergency will last for a long time and why we still have to start easing restrictions now.
How do we get out of the crisis? Three different strategies under the microscope. For example: Why we can't starve the virus, why others don't understand the simple formula and other stories from mathematics and politics.
Keynote for the international week at our university for the guests who unfortunately couldn't come this year. I show you what the cucumber regulation has to do with the win-win game and other spy-theoretical considerations about the EU.
Is it possible that the corona pandemic is not a real danger at all, but just media hype that politicians are now exploiting for their own purposes? This video addresses the question in three steps.
