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| foolm0r0n 08/15/23 2:00:39 PM #90: | Actually I just remembered the real point of the prisoner's dilemma. It's much more subtle than just being selfish or not.
It's that even if both parties were trying to be as selfish as possible, they can't choose the best option for themselves even if they wanted to. They have to go with a bad option, because the good options have a 0% chance of being picked. So they end up taking the 2 year jail option instead of the categorically better 1 year jail option, since the 1 year jail option effectively does not exist. The numbers are specifically chosen to make cooperation impossible due to risk of betrayal. If you change the numbers around then it's not prisoner's dilemma anymore. For example the Dark Knight situation is not a prisoner's dilemma, since double cooperation was the best option for everyone involved. Double cooperation needs to be worse than single betrayal for it to be the real dilemma. --- _foolmo_ he says listen to my story this maybe are last chance ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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