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What you are describing is closer to the prisoner's dilemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilem

• crimsonalucard 11y ago
  In 1968, ecologist Garrett Hardin explored this social dilemma in his article "The Tragedy of the Commons", published in the journal Science. The "prisoner's dilemma" is a quantitative/mathematically rigorous description of the same concept that came out later in 1992. I would go with "Tragedy of the commons" over the game theory title since it came out earlier and is a much more readable article for the average layman! Also, "Tragedy of the commons" sounds more appropriate. Here's a link to the original article: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/162/3859/1243.full http://www.sciencemag.org/content/162/3859/1243.full
• TeMPOraL 11y ago
  The whole class of those problems is discussed well in "Meditations on Moloch"[0]. [0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/