Einstein, determinism, and quantum theory, Ghislain Fourny, VIScon 2023 (October), ETH Zurich
Channel: Ghislain Fourny's lectures
Date: 03/02/2024

Talk given at VIScon 2023 on October 21, 2023. Meant for a broad audience, but physicists and economists will find details in the papers listed below.
VIScon is a yearly conference organized by the association of Computer Science students at ETH (VIS).
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND (Dr. Ghislain Fourny, ETH Zurich)

Link to the many papers with all the formalism and details (There are 20 years of work in there!):
👉The high-level explanations and results:
Nashian game theory is incompatible with quantum physics:
https://lnkd.in/dDbk_b_U
(The anonymous referee even made that same remark that God might play chess not dice!)
👉The formalism of the underlying model:
Games in Minkowski Spacetime:
https://lnkd.in/dzdDG-Yj
👉The non-Nashian solution for extensive form games with perfect information:
Perfect Prediction Equilibrium:
https://lnkd.in/g5xWa6j
👉The non-Nashian solution for normal form games: Perfect Prediction in normal form:
Superrational thinking extended to non-symmetric games:
https://lnkd.in/e2guQBiG
👉The non-Nashian solution for all spacetime games:
Perfect Prediction in Minkowski Spacetime: Perfectly Transparent Equilibrium for Dynamic Games with Imperfect Information:
https://lnkd.in/dET538qq
👉Older paper summarizing the vision:
Contingent Free Choice: On Extending Quantum Theory to a Contextual, Deterministic Theory With Improved Predictive Power:
https://lnkd.in/drSyhSB6

Seeding papers by Jean-Pierre Dupuy (it all started with our collaboration in 2004):
👉2000: Philosophical foundations of a new concept of equilibrium in the social sciences: Projected equilibrium
https://lnkd.in/dTUTcBpq
👉1992: Two temporalities, two rationalities: a new look at Newcomb's paradox
https://lnkd.in/deZRhBpr