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Phylogeny of strategies

from Datasets#StratMLRepository (consider datasets from recorded symbolic games like chess, go, RTS including Warcraft or Starcraft, etc)

• study the processes to detect
  • patterns
    • new processes
  • sources
    • person
      • their institution
  • rate strategies
    • find the most effective ones

... history of strategies, compare, look for patterns, eventually simulate (way trickier), ...

Notes

• strategies that became public may be false for
  • strategical reason
    • induce response from competition
  • human error

Related discussion

20:17 <Utopiah> http://blog.kapor.com/?p=29
20:20 <Utopiah> linking to a discussion I had with the storyteller friend on the "political power" of technological innovation
20:20 <Paola[Gtalk]> storyteller?
20:21 <Utopiah> to say it bluntly, I think politician really have no power beside the power of making others they do have it , which is in itself great power, propaganda power.
20:21 <Utopiah> Stanford dropout friend living in Berkeley
20:23 <Paola[Gtalk]> of making others they do have it --> believe?
20:23 <Paola[Gtalk]> and the link with technology?
20:24 <Utopiah> yes
20:24 <Utopiah> technological innovation is power in "direct action"
20:24 <Utopiah> not regulatory
20:25 <Paola[Gtalk]> ah ok
20:25 <Paola[Gtalk]> now it is clearer
20:25 <Paola[Gtalk]> yes I think so too
20:25 <Utopiah> dont worry Ill write sth about it ;) especially as it's linked to strategical epistemology
20:26 <Utopiah> and thus, I guess, it was always the case, even for "non-technological animals"
20:26 <Paola[Gtalk]> as politicians whathever their power will have to bend or adapt to it anyway
20:26 <Paola[Gtalk]> animals?
20:26 <Utopiah> a turtle
20:27 <Utopiah> it doesn't use tools, relies solely on his own body
20:27 <Utopiah> unlike some birds, primates, etc...
20:27 <Utopiah> thus the ability to leverage technology is giving power, even outside of the human realm
20:28 <Paola[Gtalk]> a turtle has his own house with it
20:28 <Utopiah> (if you think of a bird using a stick as a form of technology, even if simple)
20:28 <Paola[Gtalk]> it naturally omes with tool
20:28 <Utopiah> then it doesn't cound as technology
20:28 <Paola[Gtalk]> evolved technology
20:29 <Utopiah> well, if you think so you still converge toward my point

Link also with

• business cf FB_Wiki:ReadingNotes/InformationRules
• research paper in which algorithms X is compared with equivalent algorithms A, B and C
  • example in P2P routing with http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00459944_v1/
• modeling in which model is compared with others
  • cf in finance Des mathématiciens boulevard des Italiens mentioned in the refs

Team-based equivalent

model shared across a team of individual in order to outsmart another team. Is this reducible to the original problematic? If not, why?

• inspired by Part Three, Predators of Strange Days on Planet Earth
• see also competition of soccer robots vs human

References

• Des mathématiciens boulevard des Italiens by Emmanuel Ferrand, Images des mathématiques May 2010
  • 2nd video explain when to publish, when not to publish and why
    • also note that based on a discussion with a friend working in a french startup dedicated to optimization through caching and with french investment bank for a client, the models are not necessarily that innovative and tend to rely on "simple" mathematics
• Hacking and power: Social and technological determinism in the digital age by Tim Jordan, First Monday, Volume 14, Number 7 - 6 July 2009
• Architecture is Politics (and Politics is Architecture) by Mitch Kapor, 2006
• to distinguish from Power-knowledge and Governmentality by Michel Foucault

Inspiration

• military evolution of strategies
  • my notes on Battle of Cognition
  • L'art de la guerre par l'exemple by Frédéric Encel, Champs Flammarion 2000
    • no reading notes available
• evolution of strategies in chess, Go and other games
• earlier work
  • Research Drive
  • Motivation
• my notes on The Future Of Ideas

Example of usage

• competitive situations (generating arm-races, see run-away processes by Fischer)
  • military
  • symbolic (games)
  • decision in strategic investment in corporations
• the concept of economic hit man with the example of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man on Wikipedia
  • "convince the political and financial leadership of underdeveloped countries to accept enormous development loans from institutions like the World Bank and USAID. Saddled with huge debts they could not hope to pay, these countries were forced to acquiesce to political pressure"

In a way, famous mathematician Paul Erdos, designed "knowledge bounties" by putting "prices" on questions he thought might be difficult and valuable.

To explore

• Power & Knowledge conference, Tampere September 2010