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12 July 2025 - Yenne
Kelly Clancy's Playing With Reality was quite different than what I expected. She starts in antiquity and spends several chapters getting to where man discovers statistics. Then it's on to WWII and game theory, which is explained as an outgrowth of the Prussian Kriegsspiel. The bulk of the book is about uses and misuses of game theory. Along the way annoying random unsubstantiated digs are l obbed at capitalism as if it's an obvious evil that diesn't require explanation. The book could have been better without these and if it included mention of the gamification of our personal lives through smartphones or perhaps something on large language models. As such, while enjoyable the book just felt incomplete.
I left it for the next person in Yenne to read.
