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Mafia Game Night
Fri 7:00 PM
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Mafia Game Night - brought to you by The UChicago Technology Review We’re getting a group together for an evening of Mafia: part social deduction game, part exercise in asymmetric information, persuasion, signaling, coalition formation, and the questionable epistemic habits of very brilliant people. Expect game theory, accusations masquerading as Bayesian updating, alliances formed on dubious premises, eloquent defenses of obviously false propositions, and at least one person attempting to derive the entire game from first principles. Somewhere between a party game, a seminar on political epistemology, and a very low-stakes exercise in game theory. No prior experience necessary. We’ll expla…