benchmark strategy

May 1st, 2021

• benchmark strategy
  • = an unclever strategy that can act as a basic standard for whether a more clever strategy is actually good vs just clever
  • eg
    • Big Money in Dominion
      • (although note that big money is also just very fast, and if everybody's playing a slow-tempo game (which is often more fun!) then other strategies can be victorious and also way more interesting and fun)
    • Tit for Tat in things like Prisoner's Dilemma
    • index funds in stock investing
    • "holding space" for someone to do psychological work
      • if your active moves don't do better than holding space, they're too clever