alt Hacker NewsWell, that's not what I said anyway. I just said that zero sum games are common and there are some important ones you're not escaping.
Well, that's not what I said anyway. I just said that zero sum games are common and there are some important ones you're not escaping.
I'm saying they're not common. Those games you listed are either negative or positive sum. It's like if you draw a random number from a uniform distribution between [-1,1], you're almost certainly not going to get 0. When people say "zero-sum" they use it as a short-hand for "negative-sum", which is fine for casual speaking I guess, because the intended meaning does get across.