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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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3 mo on HN

John Rauser keynote: "Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain" -- Strata + Hadoop 2014

O'Reilly
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2025
3 mo on HN

A visual guide to Bayesian thinking

Julia Galef
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2021
3 mo on HN

GDC 2010: Sid Meier Keynote - "Everything You Know is Wrong"

GameSpot
Recommended 2× on HN · 2014–2019
2 mo on HN

AI Ethics, Impossibility Theorems and Tradeoffs - Chris Stucchio | Crunch 2018

CraftHub Events
Recommended 2× on HN · 2019–2021
1 mo on HN

The mathematics of love | Hannah Fry

TED
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2026
1 mo on HN

rand() Considered Harmful

aghuttun
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2025
1 mo on HN

Antifragille: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
Recommended 1× on HN · 2013–2023

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Mentioned in HN threads about probability & game theory, though never formally recommended:

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