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This article made me go back and play with https://ncase.me/trust/ https://ncase.me/trust/ my favorite society simulator.

• froasty 8y ago
  My only complaint about this presentation is the lack of forgetfulness and recovery of old strategies. In a word, it ignores context. A world with only tit-for-tats effectively becomes a world of always-cooperate once the knowledge that defectors are a thing disappears from visceral collective memory. And as an inevitable aftermath of that, the world of always-cooperate invites the return of always-cheat. Which invites the arrival of tit-for-tats. However, the presentation's conclusion remains the same: viable actions in the world we inhabit are largely--but not totally--defined by the contexts that everyone brings to the table. And in most contexts, it pay out more to forgive than to retribute in the long run.