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Shermer, Hoffman, and Yoeli discuss: the problems game theory was developed to solve \\u2022 How rational or irrational an animal are we? \\u2022 the evolutionary logic of game theory \\u2022 Alan Fiske\\u2019s four relationships \\u2022 kin selection, altruism and reciprocal altruism \\u2022 deception and self-deception \\u2022 costly signaling theory \\u2022 pirate rationality \\u2022 virtue signaling \\u2022 Putin, Russia, and Ukraine \\u2022 Israeli-Palestinian conflict \\u2022 justice, self-help justice, norms and laws \\u2022 chemical weapons/nuclear weapons taboos/norms \\u2022 dueling: what problem did it solve? \\u2022 beliefs: first-order vs. second-order.

Moshe Hoffman is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, a research fellow at MIT\\u2019s Sloan School of Management, and a lecturer at Harvard\\u2019s department of economics. His research focuses on using game theory, models of learning and evolution, and experimental methods to decipher the motives that shape our social behavior, preferences, and ideologies. He lives in Lubeck, Germany.

Erez Yoeli is a research scientist at MIT\\u2019s Sloan School of Management, the director of MIT\\u2019s Applied Cooperation Team (ACT), and a lecturer at Harvard\\u2019s department of economics. His research focuses on altruism: understanding how it works and how to promote it. Yoeli collaborates with governments, nonprofits, and companies to apply the lessons of this research towards addressing real-world challenges. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.