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 HNgolden balls. the weirdest split or steal ever!
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 HN2. Behavioral Evolution
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 HNJohn Rauser keynote: "Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain" -- Strata + Hadoop 2014
3 mo on HNDerren Brown - The System (Full)
3 mo on HNA visual guide to Bayesian thinking
3 mo on HNMath Encounters -- Five Balls, Two Hands: The Patterns of Juggling -- Colin Wright (Presentation)
3 mo on HNLecture 1: Probability and Counting | Statistics 110
3 mo on HNHACKENBUSH: a window to a new world of math
3 mo on HNGDC 2010: Sid Meier Keynote - "Everything You Know is Wrong"
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
3 mo on HNThe Best (and Worst) Ways to Shuffle Cards - Numberphile
2 mo on HNBayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs
2 mo on HNJordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions
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 HNNaive empiricism, terrorism & Ebola.
2 mo on HNMath Magic
2 mo on HNThe Bayesian Trap
2 mo on HNAI Ethics, Impossibility Theorems and Tradeoffs - Chris Stucchio | Crunch 2018
2 mo on HNHow We Should Vote (Range Voting)
2 mo on HNClutching at Random Straws, Matt Parker | LMS Popular Lectures 2010
2 mo on HNSimulating alternate voting systems
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Mentioned in HN threads about probability & game theory, though never formally recommended:
Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible · The Princess Bride (5/12) Movie CLIP - The Battle of Wits (1987) HD · Why We Should NOT Look For Aliens - The Dark Forest · Will We Ever Run Out of New Music? · Flipping 10 heads in a row: Full video