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Many distinctions between finite and infinite games boil down to their historical perspective: those that look backwards, concerning themselves with what has already been established and laid down — as agreed rules, formal boundaries and limited time periods for resolution necessarily do — will tend to be finite in nature; those that are open-ended, forward looking, and indeterminate — concerned with what has yet to happen, and is necessarily unknown, are infinite. | Many distinctions between finite and infinite games boil down to their historical perspective: those that look backwards, concerning themselves with what has already been established and laid down — as agreed rules, formal boundaries and limited time periods for resolution necessarily do — will tend to be finite in nature; those that are open-ended, forward looking, and indeterminate — concerned with what has yet to happen, and is necessarily unknown, are infinite. | ||
Let me throw in some original research here: historically focused games in and of themselves are fine: there is no harm and much reward to be had from enjoying a game of football; but where one makes the category error of applying finite techniques — a historical view — to the resolution of forward-looking problems that finite | Let me throw in some original research here: historically focused games in and of themselves are fine: there is no harm and much reward to be had from enjoying a game of football; but where one makes the category error of applying finite techniques — a historical view — to the resolution of forward-looking problems that the finite approach creates trouble. It is deceptive in that finite techniques appear to work well in many of the cases, because a given environment in large part functions by reference to what is already known, and here finite approach is efficient and effective and centrally controllable. | ||
In the same way the part of a normal distribution resembles the middle part of a “fat-tailed” power-law distribution: the same approaches will work passably well for both, as long as the events are within the space | |||
===Training versus education=== | ===Training versus education=== | ||