Noam Brown
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first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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I'm trying to be perfectly balanced because if I'm playing the Nash equilibrium, even if you know what my strategy is, like I said, I'm still unbeatable in expectation.
So that's what the bot aims for.
And that's actually what a lot of expert poker players aim for as well, to start by playing the Nash equilibrium.
And then maybe if they spot weaknesses in the way you're playing, then they can deviate a little bit to take advantage of that.
So, okay.
The thing that I should explain, first of all, with like Nash equilibrium, it doesn't mean that it's predictable.
The whole point of it is that you're trying to be unpredictable.
Now, I think when somebody like Phil Helmuth might be really successful is not in being unpredictable, but in being able to take advantage of the other player and figure out where they're being predictable, right?
or guiding the other player into thinking that you have certain weaknesses and then understanding how they're going to change their behavior.
They're gonna deviate from a Nash equilibrium style of play to try to take advantage of those perceived weaknesses and then counter exploit them.
So you kind of get into the mind games there.
So this gets down to a big argument in the poker community and the academic community.
For a long time, there was this debate of what's called GTO, game theory optimal poker, or exploitative play.
And up until about like 2017, when we did the Labradus match, I think actually exploitative play had the advantage.
A lot of people were saying like, oh, this whole idea of game theory, it's just nonsense.
And if you really want to make money, you got to like look into the other person's eyes and read their soul and figure out what cards they have.
But what happened was people started adopting the game theory optimal strategy, and they were making good money.
And they weren't trying to adapt so much to the other player.
They were just trying to play the Nash equilibrium.
And then what really solidified it, I think, was the Libratus match.
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