[HN Gopher] The Contagion of Concern: Game theory of how anxiety...
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The Contagion of Concern: Game theory of how anxiety spreads
Author : goldfish
Score : 76 points
Date : 2020-06-03 17:32 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| bb123 wrote:
| I wonder if the model here is missing something important - it
| assumes there is no survival penalty for a false positive attack.
| In real life this isn't true. Activating a fight or flight
| response in humans and animals has an energy (survival) penalty.
| goldfish wrote:
| Hi all, this is a follow-up to two essays:
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| 1) The parallels between anxious ideas and immune system threat
| prediction (discussed at
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22475370)
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| 2) The game theory of determining which imagined threats are
| worth our attention (discussed at
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22760540).
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| Thoughts and feedback welcome as always :)
| cjhanks wrote:
| I am glad someone has at least fake-formalized the infectious
| nature of anxiety.
| ffreire wrote:
| What makes this formalization fake?
| abellerose wrote:
| I've always thought anxiety is simply from different patterns of
| thought than people without anxiety. We can all share thoughts
| and fears but people with anxiety have a pattern that results in
| an unpleasant experience. Maybe one suffering anxiety should
| analyze different approaches to how one arrives at an outlook and
| compare to their own for maybe adapting. I'm writing with
| ignorance because I've never had bad anxiety.
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