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So if you picked "keep" you have a chance at an extra $125,000. But you also look like a selfish bastard on national TV, you'll probably lose a lot of friends,
by cduan 16y ago
So if you picked "keep" you have a chance at an extra $125,000. But you also look like a selfish bastard on national TV, you'll probably lose a lot of friends, and whatever relationship you had going with your housemate (I assume there was something, I didn't watch the show) is now gone. I think those outweigh the extra hundred-odd grand.
The moral of the story is that ongoing relationships can break the prisoner's dilemma. This could be anything from an emotional relationship to a business contract to mere public scrutiny. The prisoner's dilemma is really only a dilemma if it is a true one-shot game, or if the monetary amounts are enough to overcome these other factors.
- olalonde 16y agoIt would be interesting to simulate the prisoner's dilemma through AI agents and see if they develop a sense of trust over time. Maybe they would adopt a cooperative strategy eventually. Edit: This paper seems to go in that direction http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.43.8408&rep=rep1&type=p http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.43....
- greenlblue 16y agoThere is an iterated version of the prisoner's dilemma and you don't need a clever AI to win. The name of the strategy is tit for tat and it basically wins over the long run.