It’s gotta be a joke. I hope.

I took the lambdas in the username to mean theyre a functional programming fan, pretty sure they're joking.
- it could also just be a fan of half life and they actually don’t know any better
- Lambda is also a symbol of queer activism. Don't know if that's the intention here, just the first thing I think of.
It is the joke.
Nah, it's just a theory.

A GAME THEORY.

I was actually kinda disappointed when I found out that Game Theory had nothing to do with games, and was actually just math. 😩

This is why you should read Ender's Game before you're allowed to watch YouTube.
I remember when reddit used to be a site where the top comment was always something interesting and insightful and sometimes even given by an expert.

But then it all became shitposts and jokes at the top level.

Then I came to Lemmy and found what felt a lot like old reddit, the top comment being something decent and thought provoking.

Took less than 6 months to just turn into reddit. Thanks for contributing to the enshittification of another site with your inaccurate but funny top comment. And now my inbox will be flooded with people who tell me not to take things too seriously and that it isn't that big a deal.

I guarantee you within a year and a half lemmy will be worse than reddit.

And people like you will be the ones who helped make it that way.
- I remember the vitriol of old reddit. I believe you are contributing to that more than helping.
  
  Reddit was never pure in terms of discussion or kindness; I think you've got some heavily tinted rose glasses on. But reddit succeeded and brought you the deep, insightful discussion you crave because the enthusiasts were there. And enthusiasts are human, they are not all heartless cogs there to infodump and complain. The most knowledgeable, well-read, and well-spoken people I know are also ones to crack jokes and make their passions accessible and interesting.
  
  If you want healthy discussion, I strongly believe you should allow at least a bit of levity and let people speak a little more freely. Chastising people for not being insightful enough will turn away plenty of the people you want to keep.
  
  Let neckbeards and normies mingle. It's okay to have fun.
  
  Also worth mentioning: this is Microblog Memes. It's in the name.
- I love when trolls like you are super obvious. Makes the decision to block you so much easier. Buh bye now.
- Are you a robot in a SciFi film who just turned evil or is the massive quantity of red light coming out of your eyes just your rose tinted glasses
- Enshittification is specifically a platform getting worse because it needs to shift resources to its advertisers or itself. If you think this is happening on Lemmy, I would you curious how, otherwise please do not contribute to diluting the term and making it into a synonym of "thing getting worse"
- How dare you talk to my boy Kolanaki like that
  
  Never talk to me or my dog again
  
  Jokes aside, 2 days in and a 50 downvote comment seems almost impressive
  
  Almost

I'm indifferent to the content, but I fucking hate that they took the name Game Theory. I can't talk about this genuinely fascinating topic just about anywhere without kids screaming about the channel.

Game theory is a better name for the YouTube channel than the academic field.
- No? It's a field of math, which are typically called theories, that studies games.

for the longest time, i did know that game theory did not have anything to do with "games" and that it is somehow connected to the prisoners dilemma, but the concept as such wasn't very clear to me. If you are like my former me, take 30 minutes out of your day and visit https://ncase.me/trust/ to learn and play around with game theory; it's a great webpage and it's pretty good fun all around.

We have game theory as an a elective at my uni, the amount of people who signed up for game theory instead of game design is staggering
- Those people would benefit from game theory then. Game theory is all about using the information available to make the best possible choice.
Why would I play game theory when I can play actual games?? It’s like reading about sex positions when your horny naked fwb is right next to you, I tells ya!
- Some people definitely need to read more fucktheory.
If you want to learn about games you want combinatorial game theory. Traditional game theory isn't completely divorced from real games either, but comes up more often in economics.

I took Game Theory and the professor's first name was Patrick. Some ID for something related to the course (that he chose himself) was "patmath".

It's been a thing for a century, YouTubers didn't invent words.

Thatsthejoke.jpg
- That's what I hoped, but none of the commentors seemed to be in on it.
Wasn't it invented in the 40s or 50s by John von Neumann

Game theory final exam:

Full Marks (100%):

You will receive full marks if you answer all questions correctly and at least 70% of the class chooses the "Full Marks" strategy.

If you answer all questions correctly but fewer than 70% of the class chooses the "Full Marks" strategy, your grade will be 90%

Half Marks (50%):

You will receive half marks if you answer all questions correctly but at least 30% of the class chooses the "Half Marks" strategy.

If you choose this strategy and the class distribution aligns as specified, your grade will be 50% irrespective of the correctness of your answers.

Fail (0%) with Incentive:

You will receive a failing grade if you choose the "Fail" strategy or if your answers are incorrect and less than 30% of the class chooses the "Fail" strategy.

If you choose the "Fail" strategy and at least 30% of the class also chooses the "Fail" strategy, you will receive a special incentive: Automatic 'A' grade in the next course module, regardless of your performance in this exam.

Additionally, if more than 70% of the class chooses "Fail" or "Half Marks" strategies combined, everyone will fail regardless of individual choices.

I think you need an inverse incentive:

If you are the only one to use "Fail" strategy, you finish with 100% and everybody's result will be mutliplied by 0.8

The game theory course at my university was called "Poker 101"

Is there a YouTuber/streamer named "Game" or something?

There is a YouTube channel called game theory.
- Thank you!
- I'm also confused about the that. I searched for game theory on duckduckgo and google and the top results are about the math field. I've tried to search "game theory site:youtube.com" and I see videos from the channel "The Game Theorists". Is that it?
There's a YouTube channel called Game Theory that spun off a song called "Pokemon Masters are Broke" by the Gregory Brothers.

The main guy, "Matpat" just retired after 10 or so years of YouTubing

It is now an umbrella term for the science of rational decision making in humans, animals, and computers.

Sounds too academic for me

Northernlion class is lectured by the librarian.

I'll allow it as long as the librarian is bald...

when you drive past the university entrance's brand new million dollar fountain to get to the shit-tier computers in the cramped as fuck computer lab, then you start wondering if it was always like this

Yes, it was.

Imagine the disappointment of a young Anarchist after joining a Chaos Theory class.

Almost like learning online has been better quality sense ever.

Considering they have a net worth of $45m and $40m, respectively, then yes maybe Academia should have classes and seminars about them. Throw in a MrBeast ($1bn) for good measure.

I wonder what you think the role of academia in modern society should be.
- Curious what you're trying to say?
- It depends on what the students want to learn. There are people who want to be scientists, people who want to be teachers, there are also people who want to make money and run a business.
  
  Academia is a place where people can get an in-depth knowledge of the thing(s) they’re interested in learning to help prepare them to be successful in the outside world.
  
  It is a valid and money-making industry to be a profitable YouTuber. It takes planning, strategy, project management, financing, accounting, and various other people skills. Just because it’s YouTube, and just because you may not take it seriously, makes it no less of a viable and marketable skill that could be taught to other people.
  
  Now it’s your turn: what is your idea of the role of academia in modern society?
Considering they have a net worth of $45m and $40m, respectively, then yes maybe Academia should have classes and seminars about them.

According to Credit Suisse, there were 264,200 people with net worth above US$50 million at the end of 2021. That is completely not noteworthy of a mention in any way, on a global level.
- I beg to differ. There are over 8,123,000,000 people in the world. Your number (from three years ago) is only 0.003% of the world’s population. That’s less than 1%.
  
  Now, ignoring your fallacy of an argument, just because there are people in other careers that make more money does not mean being successful YouTuber/vLogger is any less viable than any other occupation.
  
  If that were the case, then there are a lot of more traditional roles that we wouldn’t be teaching; like Marine Biologist, who in the US makes on average $57k/year. And yet, Academia still pushes this science (among others) because there is still a demand for it.
  
  And make no mistake, Academia is not going to push subjects that aren’t in demand. They will teach what they feel is in demand enough to attract students.
And their net contribution to human knowledge is..?
- Matt Patt was consulted when evaluating possible outcomes of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Mmm-hmm.
  
  That is only one aspect of academia’s purpose.
How's their success mean that there's another university course made after them.