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Nash Equilibrium

An outcome in which no single player, looking at what everyone else did, wishes they had played differently — Ben Polak's phrase for it is 'no regrets.' It says nothing about whether anyone is happy with the outcome or whether a jointly better outcome exists elsewhere in the game; it says only that, given what everyone else chose, nobody individually has an incentive to be the one who switches.

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