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    Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 10 Jun 2018
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    Your good news of the day: in an actual Prisoners' Dilemma situation, most prisoners decided to cooperate. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268113001522 … [Caveat: it was a stylized experiment administered to prisoners; conviction did not hang in the balance.]pic.twitter.com/WtStwf2FjQ

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        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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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 10 Jun 2018
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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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      3. Flo Crivello‏ @Altimor 10 Jun 2018
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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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      1. Miguel de Icaza‏ @migueldeicaza 10 Jun 2018
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        Love it! My mood was lifted - up until I saw the next tweet involving agent orange.

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      1. Mark M. Whelan FRSA‏ @MarkMWhelan 11 Jun 2018
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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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      1. Alison Emily‏ @aalexis1234 10 Jun 2018
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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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      1. MOURNING CROW PUNISHER Derek‏ @PereGrimmer 12 Jun 2018
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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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      1. Sasha Kaletsky‏ @SKaletsky 10 Jun 2018
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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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      1. wash your hands after stealing cat poop‏ @catpoopburglar 10 Jun 2018
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        ... is that good news?

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