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Do You Want To Eat Grandma?
The eye of Sauron gazes down upon us as we click, search and buy online in an endless feedback loop of transactions. We rely on algorithms for advice, for direction and general guidance and reassurance in our personal lives. Machines and robots are thinking because rational humans have stopped thinking. Consider this thought experiment: mentally…
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Neoteny: Something Abstract is Thinking
The algorithms behind artificial intelligence can enable the software to recognise faces, translate languages, and play complex games. They facilitate online shopping and search. The synchronised interaction between you, the rational online consumer (‘onsumer’, henceforth) and a sufficiently intelligent algorithm, (Al Gorithm, henceforth) is best understood as an asymmetric game as described recently in a…
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Masterclass+ Hub
Here you will find materials in support of the Masterclass+ or Workshops offered by Patrick at Manchester and Smurfit Business Schools http://advancedmanagement.net . The resources include ppt slide pack, Word documents with embedded Hyperlinks to secondary readings and a Practical example to illustrate the computation of a Nash equilibrium. A template for the applied research…
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Meso-Data: Omega Circles & Origami Manifolds
Masterclass 2018 will discuss whether or not meso-data patterns could be decoded from omega circles. Intuitively, it means that Mr Al. Gorithm (and his influence on the onsumer choice set) embeds predictable patterns in everyday behaviour so that small data sets become richer than big data ever imagined. Work in progress, scheduled for Dubai, Abu…
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Beyond Individual Choice: Meso-Data Creativity
In this presentation, delivered in Dubai, a sustainable strategy is defined as convergence to group rationality via creative solutions. One creative solution – meso-data creativity – is discussed in terms of a sufficiently intelligent algorithms (SIAL), the purpose of which is to to nudge behaviour towards a sustainable strategy outcome. Once rational individuals are ‘enveloped’…
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E-book Download: Decoding Strategy
The chapters from the acclaimed Decoding Strategy are now available to download as a free e-book. Patrick and McGraw Hill have come to an agreement to end production of the book with an abridgement of property rights. If you choose to download the chapters then I would appreciate if you could consider a voluntary subscription…
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Could Labour Win? Condorcet Loser in UK Election
A recent YouGov poll last week, Tuesday 30 May, provoked a discussion of a likely ‘hung parliament’ in the upcoming UK election. Voters are challenged, faced with many candidates across a spectrum of issues, as the old left-right dichotomy breaks down. In the literature on voting theory, there is a phenomenon called the Condorcet Loser.…
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Who Buttoned My Waistcoat?
Who did button my waistcoat, a human or a sufficiently intelligent algorithm, (SIAL)? At Manchester and Smurfit business schools we explore the economics of the sharing economy from a game theory perspective. We have shared observations and experiences of online transactions. They represent data patterns that are embedded in the clicking and scrolling behaviour of…
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Polar Bear & Seal Dilemma in the Apollonius Circle
Abstract Polar bears pursue seals. But polar bears cannot swim as well as seals. As the ice cap melts, there is less ice caps for the seals to rest. Both have to survive. With melting ice caps, the seal as victim should adapt to the same speed as the pursuer, the polar bear. In the…
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Game Ontology
Patrick will be on a speaking tour in Asia introducing an innovative approach to strategy by complementing game theory with philosophy. The phrase ‘game ontology’ is reserved as a working title for a new book planned with McGraw Hill Asia for 2017 release. He will introduce the philosophy of conduct to audiences at business meetings…