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+Book Review—The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution
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+On my secret ("secret") blog, I reviewed a book about the cultural evolutionary game theory of gender! I thought I'd share the link on this website, because you guys probably like game theory?? (~2400 words)
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 gender makes inequitable coordination equilibria possible in a way that isn't available in a uniform population—O'Connor gives an example about splitting a pizza, but my example: gay relationships have to coordinate anew
 
 Hawk-dove has two pure-strategy equilbria Hawk/Dove and Dove/Hawk. (The Hawk has no incentive to switch to Dove and settle for a lower payoff, but the Dove has no incentive to switch to Hawk and destroy the surplus fighting)
 
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 greetings are symmetric (both shake right hand), unless you have types (gentleman kisses lady's hand); everyone drives on the right
 
 gradient markers: if type value is continuous (like age or skin color), you can use "If my tag value is greater"
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 > "Even if [Larry Summers] was right, he ought to have kept his mouth shut." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/women-math-and-science_b_6573074
 
-"No bias in this model, no stereotype threat, not much psychology in general"
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 If inequality emerges under minimal conditions without biases, then bias training can't help
 
-one coordination problem can affect the conventionality of another: childcare being incompatible with big game hunting, shrinks the basin of attraction for women hunting big game
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+one coordination problem can affect the conventionality of another: childcare being incompatible with big game hunting, shrinks the basin of attraction for women hunting big game
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+threatpoints (or disagreement points): if bargaining fails, someone has a worse BATNA. If you have a high threatpoint, the difference between demanding Low and getting the threatpoint isn't a big deal, which makes less of an incentive to learn to demand Low and less risk to demanding High—and if they learn to demand High, that forces the other type to learn to demand Low
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