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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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