The isolation field was an attempt to figure out if Madoka existed. Before that all they had was Homura's word that the entire universe was different last Thursday.
Kinematics, would you please elaborate? Although I think I have a good idea what that means...
They were attempting to observe and eventually contain a
I just mean that they will deviate from their normally intelligent actions when presented with sufficient reward for doing so. IE: They don't seem to like to tell the un-contracted too much about the system before they contract. Madoka was so powerful they decided to tell her everything to play off of her martyr complex and instead got screwed over by the Madokami wish. Rebellion was at least new ground for them, so some of their foolish actions can be excused that way, but the point we're making is that they can be tempted into doing stupid things. This is relevant information when it comes to a species that displays few, if any, other weaknesses.
So... Like every human ever?
Granted that they succeeded several dozen times, only losing out on Madoka's power because of Homura's reset. Once they figure out Homura has been looping, it seems a pretty safe bet that they can succeed this time as well.
Assuming you hadn't been spoiled, at the moment that Madoka came down to get Homura, did you have even the remotest clue that Homura would do what she did? Is there any logical reason for you to expect it to have happened?
The basic explanation of game theory uses a classic game called the Prisoner's Dilemma. In PD, two players (assumed to have been partners in some crime) are independently given the choice of whether to cooperate with (not betray) the other player, or to defect against (betray) the other player.
Well, yeah. It's one of his only human traits, and his only known weakness. I just mean that all of their known failures have been due to ambition, if that's what I have to call it. I'm not saying that he's a total fool when potential gain is involved, but his biggest mistakes have come at those times when he had quite a bit to gain. Yes, his risks usually paid off, but the nature of a risk is that it might blow up in your face instead. It's not really relevant at the moment, just a potential weakness to be exploited.
Given his behavior in episode 10, he probably never really intended for humanity to do that.
Give me a moment, pretty sure his phrasing is too ambiguous to be a lie.
It depends on what aspect of game theory you're looking at. The basics don't distinguish between long term and short term. The primary purpose is to analyze decision-making reasoning based on incomplete information (such as not knowing what choice the other player is going to make). Then you have iterative versions where you repeat the same decision over and over against the same person. Then you have the evolutionary model, which looks at decisions among large populations over time, where you're not facing off against the same person over and over, but instead facing off against someone with an unknown strategy, and you need a strategy that will work against as many alternate strategies as possible.
Looked up the wording, it's pretty unambiguous, so he must not have known Gretchen would be so powerful that she could destroy the earth, and honestly expected humanity to survive. Everything he ever says in the show is eventually shown to be true, from a certain point of view. This shit'll get too complicated if we assume he can lie, anyway.
How are we gonna find out about the Kwiji/Homu loop? Oriko said we'd have to go to someone else because Homumom won't tell us, but there's nobody else we can actually ask.
