Game theory is used to understand how decisions are made in fields as diverse as economics and evolutionary biology, and even for a game as simple as coin-flipping it can yield a strategy that gives each player the best chance of winning (or, at least, of coming out even).

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Dispersed, cooperative knowledge works in economics as it does in evolutionary biology, to accelerate advancement of the human species.

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