*Everybody* has MS Doc format (+/-) available to them, for free:
http://docs.google.com/
I use it all the time.
--Doug
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On 6/9/07, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there any way we could pass around pdf's or just text papers we
share with each other? I no longer have MS Office available, nor
does anyone in my household, and I would like to avoid getting it. I
think I got the right stuff via textedit, I attach the pdf, but I'm
not sure I got it all.
-- Owen
On Jun 7, 2007, at 11:35 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> All,
>
> Every once in a while, I run into a passage so sharp and well
> written that it rattles my whole world. The passage is from
>
> Bendor and Swistak (1998) 'Evolutionary Equilibria:
> CharacterizationTheorems and their Implications', Theory and
> Decision, 45, 99-159. ( from pages 113-116]
>
>
>
> For anybody doing game theory modelling it's a must read. It also
> demonstrates (once again) the dangers of intentional-mentalistic
> theoretical terms (in this case, "strategy") in modelling
> exercises. The profound point for me is that selection for a
> behavior performed under a particular set of circumstances is NOT
> selection for a strategy, unless another strategy exists in the
> population that does not perform that behavior under those
> circumstances. (Following the model of words like "isozyme", let
> us say that two strategies that produce the same behaviors under a
> given set of circumstances as "isoethic" (from ethology). and say
> that the same two strategies may be "alloethic" under a different
> set of circumstances. ) Selection cannot occur between two
> strategies UNLESS they are alloethic. Whether two strategies are
> allo- or iso-ethic is not solely a propery of them or even of the
> relation between them but a property of the relation between them
> in relation to what other strategies are within the population!
> The thing about this way of thinking that makes my palms sweat is
> suddently makes Waddington's concept of Genetic Assimilation
> totally transparent. Before the heat shock procedure, there was
> isoethic variation in wing-formation genes; in the context of heat
> shock, this variation became alloethic, and could be selected.
>
> ANYWAY. Dont read thompson, read the damn passage.
>
> NIck
> <Doc5.doc>
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