Credit to @ArtirKel for the pointer in a wonderful essay[1] reflecting on Scott Alexander's deservedly famous Meditations on Moloch[2].
[1] https://nintil.com/2015/12/24/slaying-alexanders-moloch/ …
[2]http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ …
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I think that prisoners probably perceive an important unwritten post-game payoff matrix which university students do not.
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Yes, the original formulation of the prisoner dilemma is one off, but cooperate / cooperate is the equilibrium of the iterated version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma …
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Love it! My mood was lifted - up until I saw the next tweet involving agent orange.
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That’s good, most people who admire John Nash often forget he was a paranoid schizophrenic. Cooperation leads to a more harmonious outcome. Always.
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Unfortunately, many rules/regulations are implemented to protect us from those that don’t & then we all suffer. This is what happens when we worship the sociopath for millennia after millennia.
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Ty. Interesting. Not sure the paper's claim to 1st empirical investigation is true (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0047235277900253 …) but I may be misreading.
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Good news is one way of looking at it. But remember - in a PD “cooperate” means not telling the police the crimes they committed! This is “snitches get stitches” in action
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Bad news of the day: selection bias. The sample group is composed of participants who had failed to defect in an actual prisoners' dilemma game.
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... is that good news?
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