Did John Boyd Leave Game Theory Out of the OODA Loop
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The episode explores the absence of game theory in John Boyd's work and its implications on strategy and decision making.
Send us Fan Mail Game theory tries to solve the game. The OODA loop reshapes the conditions under which any game gets played. Brian "Ponch" Rivera and Mark "Moose" McGrath open the archives and ask a sharp question: John Boyd clearly understood game theory, so why is it nearly absent from A Discourse on Winning and Losing? The answer is Orientation. Game theory assumes a fixed board with stable payoffs. Boyd assumes every representation is incomplete and open to manipulation, and that the act...
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