I’d start by telling them about the commuting paradox (link grabbed from Yvain’s post about rational house buying )- how people end up making themselves miserable by not properly estimating/valuing their own preferences.
That’s a concrete example of something that negatively affects hundreds of millions people worldwide; and its applicability to real life is much better understood than the applicability of the triplet game.
I’d start by telling them about the commuting paradox (link grabbed from Yvain’s post about rational house buying )- how people end up making themselves miserable by not properly estimating/valuing their own preferences.
That’s a concrete example of something that negatively affects hundreds of millions people worldwide; and its applicability to real life is much better understood than the applicability of the triplet game.