Probability & game theory Videos Recommended on Hacker News (47)
Probability & game theory is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 47 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2012 and 2026 — 138 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Probability and decision theory: combinatorics, Statistics 110, Bayes theorem, paradoxes, game theory, prisoner's dilemma, Nash equilibrium, randomness, expected value.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Why Being Delusional is a Superpower: “if you attribute just 5% of outcomes to luck, then the people who have the best outcomes are among the luckiest people” — an HN commenter, 2022.
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9 mo on HNWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
10 mo on HNWhy Your Vote Doesn't Count
8 mo on HNOnce you understand game theory, you understand the world.
7 mo on HNThe Voting System That Should Replace Every Election
5 mo on HNHow lucky is too lucky?: The Minecraft Speedrunning Dream Controversy Explained
4 mo on HNAnimated Voting Methods
4 mo on HNThe medical test paradox, and redesigning Bayes' rule
4 mo on HNIs AI Safety a Pascal's Mugging?
4 mo on HNHow our voting system (and IRV) betrays your favourite candidate
3 mo on HNWhy do competitors open their stores next to one another? - Jac de Haan
4 mo on HNRandomness is Random - Numberphile
3 mo on HNHACKENBUSH: a window to a new world of math
3 mo on HNSimulating Green Beard Altruism
3 mo on HNThe Fermi Paradox: Dark Forest Theory
3 mo on HNYou Can Win the Presidency With 22% of the Vote
2 mo on HNBayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs
2 mo on HNCambridge Ideas - Professor Risk
2 mo on HNWhy is this number everywhere?
2 mo on HNIf money was no object, should you run every medical test?
2 mo on HNMath Magic
2 mo on HNThe Bayesian Trap
2 mo on HNHow We Should Vote (Range Voting)
2 mo on HNSimulating alternate voting systems
1 mo on HNThe Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure
1 mo on HNDarts in Higher Dimensions (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile
1 mo on HNThe Unbeatable Game from the 60s: Dr NIM
1 mo on HNCrowd Wisdom Principles
1 mo on HNThe Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
1 mo on HNBBC - The Code - The Wisdom of the Crowd
1 mo on HNBertrand's Paradox (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile
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