Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Game theory — strategic interaction and its equilibria — evolutionary stability, repeated games, bargaining, coordination, signalling and conventions — in biology, economics and philosophy (ADR-019).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUESTION-173 | Does the free-riding structure of truth-and-obstinacy debate survive with more than two debaters or with strategies richer than fixed, memoryless premise and conclusion rules? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-290, moved here when THEORY-290 was narrowed to the two-debater, three-proposition model it was computed in and promoted on 2026-10-19 (ADR-047 v3). LIT-966 finds that debaters who value true belief but pay to revise free-ride on one another’s bold arguments, in a model with two players and fixed, memoryless strategies. Whether the structure holds for groups, or for debaters who can target a partner’s false beliefs, is not shown. | Open |
| QUESTION-271 v3 | How can an organization evaluate its own processes so that the evaluation decides authority without being captured by it: when wins among the processes cycle, when no common scale scores them all, when the processes in charge can add, filter or duplicate the tests, and when only the processes heeded are evaluated? | Filed at the owner’s direction, 2026-10-24, with the registration of works from multi-agent reinforcement learning and learning in games, after the owner asked how the record stands on MARL. The governance line keeps returning to one gap: the scoring that allocates authority is itself governed. The replicator construction makes that gap a lock-in threshold, and BoostTheVote assumes it away with an objective metric. The question asks what evaluation procedures resist capture, and in which of four senses. | Open |
| QUESTION-354 | Do Monderer and Shapley (1996) state, as their Lemma 2.5, that a finite strategic game has the finite improvement property exactly when it has a generalized ordinal potential, with the standard definitions of improvement path, finite improvement property and generalized ordinal potential? | THEORY-896’s former promote_when, moved here when the twenty-fourth status review promoted it on its re-derivation, second-checked. The mathematics is proved in the record and stated by Apt (LIT-1866). What is open is only whether the attribution to Monderer and Shapley (LIT-1462, unread) is exact: lemma number, page, wording and class. | Open |