Robert J. Aumann – Nobel Prize Lecture

and this years prize of nonchalance and general coolness goes to Robert J. Aumann, for turning up for the most prestigious lecture that anyone can give with a few hand scrawled OHP transparencies..

regrettably his lecture was rather rubbish, in short

game theory proves that if you want peace, prepare for war

UPDATE:
His co-winner Thomas C. Schelling who spoke without visual aids and mostly without notes spent the whole of his lecture saying that nukes are shocking and awe-full (but actually quite cool). He didn’t mention game theory once.

No wonder we call it the dismal science.

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Caspar is just one monkey among billions. Battering his keyboard without expectations even of peanuts, let alone of aping the Immortal Bard. By day he is an infantologist at Birkbeck Babylab, by night he runs BabyLaughter.net
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