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The prisoners dillema fails to take into account that both prisoners know each other, and one of the prisoners may not make a rational decision. Say there is pr
by ihaveahadron 10y ago
The prisoners dillema fails to take into account that both prisoners know each other, and one of the prisoners may not make a rational decision. Say there is prisoner a and b. Prisoner a is a drooling moron who will act again his self interest. Prisoner b knows this. Prisoner b will do the thing that will make him get out of jail for good. Essentially I'm not playing along with this "riddle" because its flawed in the first place because it fails to understand elementary consciousness.
- pmontra 10y agoA friend working with inmates says that they laugh at the idea of the prisoner dilemma. They say there is no dilemma: everybody knows that one must never confess or there will be consequences. These are not occasional criminals but people for which crime is a career path, exactly the mobsters of the example in the article. They have rules to follow which affect all their professional life in the same way we have contracts with our customers.