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Probability & game theory Videos Recommended on Hacker News (52)
Probability & game theory is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 52 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
Veritasium
9 HN recommender · 2020–2024
10 mo on HNWhy Your Vote Doesn't Count
CGP Grey
10 HN recommender · 2015–2025
8 mo on HNOnce you understand game theory, you understand the world.
Veritasium
10 HN recommender · 2023–2026
7 mo on HNThe Voting System That Should Replace Every Election
CGP Grey
7 HN recommender · 2012–2021
5 mo on HNgolden balls. the weirdest split or steal ever!
spinout3
5 HN recommender · 2012–2025
5 mo on HNHow lucky is too lucky?: The Minecraft Speedrunning Dream Controversy Explained
Stand-up Maths
5 HN recommender · 2021–2025
4 mo on HNAnimated Voting Methods
Unify The Vote
3 HN recommender · 2018–2022
4 mo on HNThe medical test paradox, and redesigning Bayes' rule
3Blue1Brown
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HNIs AI Safety a Pascal's Mugging?
Robert Miles AI Safety
3 HN recommender · 2019–2026
4 mo on HNHow our voting system (and IRV) betrays your favourite candidate
The Center for Election Science
5 HN recommender · 2014–2023
3 mo on HN2. Behavioral Evolution
Stanford
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
3 mo on HNWhy do competitors open their stores next to one another? - Jac de Haan
TED-Ed
3 HN recommender · 2015–2025
4 mo on HNRandomness is Random - Numberphile
Numberphile
4 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNJohn Rauser keynote: "Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain" -- Strata + Hadoop 2014
O'Reilly
3 HN recommender · 2015–2025
3 mo on HNDerren Brown - The System (Full)
ScepticaTV
3 HN recommender · 2013–2017
3 mo on HNA visual guide to Bayesian thinking
Julia Galef
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNMath Encounters -- Five Balls, Two Hands: The Patterns of Juggling -- Colin Wright (Presentation)
National Museum of Mathematics
3 HN recommender · 2017–2026
3 mo on HNLecture 1: Probability and Counting | Statistics 110
Harvard University
3 HN recommender · 2017–2018
3 mo on HNHACKENBUSH: a window to a new world of math
Owen Maitzen
3 HN recommender · 2022–2025
3 mo on HNGDC 2010: Sid Meier Keynote - "Everything You Know is Wrong"
GameSpot
2 HN recommender · 2014–2019
3 mo on HNSimulating Green Beard Altruism
Primer
3 HN recommender · 2021–2021
3 mo on HNThe Fermi Paradox: Dark Forest Theory
Isaac Arthur
2 HN recommender · 2019–2024
3 mo on HNYou Can Win the Presidency With 22% of the Vote
CGP Grey
3 HN recommender · 2015–2020
3 mo on HNThe Best (and Worst) Ways to Shuffle Cards - Numberphile
Numberphile
3 HN recommender · 2015–2026
2 mo on HNBayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs
3Blue1Brown
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HNJordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions
Bite-sized Philosophy
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
2 mo on HNCambridge Ideas - Professor Risk
Cambridge University
2 HN recommender · 2013–2022
2 mo on HNWhy is this number everywhere?
Veritasium
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HNIf money was no object, should you run every medical test?
Medlife Crisis
2 HN recommender · 2019–2024
2 mo on HNNaive empiricism, terrorism & Ebola.
N N Taleb's Probability Questions
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
2 mo on HNMath Magic
Vsauce
2 HN recommender · 2016–2024
2 mo on HNThe Bayesian Trap
Veritasium
2 HN recommender · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNAI Ethics, Impossibility Theorems and Tradeoffs - Chris Stucchio | Crunch 2018
CraftHub Events
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021
2 mo on HNHow We Should Vote (Range Voting)
Undefined Behavior
3 HN recommender · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNClutching at Random Straws, Matt Parker | LMS Popular Lectures 2010
London Mathematical Society
2 HN recommender · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNSimulating alternate voting systems
Primer
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026