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Well luckily there are people who do seek peace and diplomacy, because if everyone treated the world like a giant prisoner's dilemma then we'd all be fucked.
by underwater 8y ago
Well luckily there are people who do seek peace and diplomacy, because if everyone treated the world like a giant prisoner's dilemma then we'd all be fucked.
- oh_sigh 8y agoAren't you just hoping that people who seek peace and diplomacy are on the Chinese/Russian/etc side when shit hits the fan? What if they aren't? You can have all the peacekeepers and diplomats in the world, but if the other side isn't willing to play by that game, then they wont.
- emberrider 8y agoThey're strongly incentivized to play by the game when the alternative is annihilation. For 70 or so years, that kept everyone safe.
- jlawson 8y agoThe optimal strategy for iterated prisoner's dilemma is tit for tat.
- jplayer01 8y agoWe have plenty of diplomacy. But diplomacy only goes so far. Military exists because diplomacy doesn't always work and there are plenty of reasons why it might not work.
- underwater 8y agoYes. But there is a very real difference in escalation as a last resort and as the default. The Prisoner's Dilemma is about operating with zero knowledge from and coordination with the other parties. Diplomacy lets us avoid that in the real world.