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I keep thinking that carbon in the air is the just the largest game of prisoners dilemma where we likely all lose.

• perfunctory 7y ago
  In prisoners dilemma each prisoner is in solitary confinement with no means of communicating with the other. This is not the world we are in.
  • _fizz_buzz_ 7y ago
    Not a game theory expert, but maybe it would be more correct to say that we are stuck in a Nash equilibrium (no player can benefit by changing strategies while the other players keep theirs unchanged).
  • scotty79 7y ago
    It's not so much that prisoners can't talk. They just can't influence eachothers decisions which kinda reminds current setup of sovereign nation states.
    • zer0tonin 7y ago
      But nation states can influence each others decisions, through diplomacy, tariffs, war...
  • yreg 7y ago
    Not in "the" prisoner dilemma, but there are versions with communication/iteration, which are just as worthwhile exploring as the original one.
  • deleted 7y ago
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• seventytwo 7y ago
  Tragedy of the commons