tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post8722109291859367131..comments2024-03-28T18:17:00.135-05:00Comments on Computational Complexity: The (il)logic of fandomLance Fortnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06752030912874378610noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-71724658210048028662013-02-07T17:14:32.289-06:002013-02-07T17:14:32.289-06:00It depends on whether you're a betting type of...It depends on whether you're a betting type of person.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-63140114521149290272013-02-06T08:26:44.946-06:002013-02-06T08:26:44.946-06:00For (3), the only time I was at a college with a t...For (3), the only time I was at a college with a team worth mentioning was during my postdoc. So I cheer for them, sort of by default.Andrew Eckfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07739059406915664466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-55995885247828688462013-02-06T07:29:09.763-06:002013-02-06T07:29:09.763-06:00Apropos of this, see this article on how sports fa...Apropos of this, see this article on <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/just-how-much-is-sports-fandom-like-religion/272631/" rel="nofollow">how sports fandom is like religion</a>Jonathan Katzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07362776979218585818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-42952797477349120072013-02-05T12:45:25.531-06:002013-02-05T12:45:25.531-06:00• Victorious football fans experience a richly ful...• Victorious football fans experience a richly fulfilling <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DTkhp9sv58" rel="nofollow">primordial enjoyment of territorial dominance by their troop's youngest strongest males</a></b>.<br /><br />• Defeated football fans losers are consoled by the (recently evolved) human respect for the rules of civilization, which act to restrain (usually) primordial human instincts for killing and cannibalism. <br /><br />These experiences can be rationalized, of course. Which is good! And yet the foundations of these experiences are entirely instinctive, not rational.John Sidleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16286860374431298556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-51761048202853453802013-02-05T12:14:37.977-06:002013-02-05T12:14:37.977-06:0011. Root against the mean.
During Jordan's he...11. Root against the mean. <br />During Jordan's heyday, it seemed like everybody loved Jordan to the point where you couldn't go anywhere without people saying "I wanna be like Mike" or talking about getting some new "Jordans". So I began to like whoever the Bulls were playing. Similarly (but for a different reason), my second favorite team is whoever Dallas is playing. <br /><br />And we can speak about this logically since I'm increasing the variance. AfterMathhttp://www.learninglover.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-87411983639781070352013-02-05T11:17:32.842-06:002013-02-05T11:17:32.842-06:00Is there a logic to being a sports fan?
No, it...<i>Is there a logic to being a sports fan?</i><br /><br />No, it's just primate tribalism.<br /><br />Between ages 20 and 40 I abandoned it entirely because of that. But then I realized that people are tribal animals and sport is a good way to indulge our tribal nature without real violence. So at age 54 I became a baseball fan again. Jeffrey Shallithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763971505497961430noreply@blogger.com