3 ms·
Yup, a lot of people tend to refer to any non-zero-sum game as a "prisoners' dilemma", which is frequently wrong, so it's good to point out that that's not corr
by Sniffnoy 5y ago
Yup, a lot of people tend to refer to any non-zero-sum game as a "prisoners' dilemma", which is frequently wrong, so it's good to point out that that's not correct. This taxonomy is perhaps doing a little too much; I think that most of the time you really just need Prisoners' Dilemma, Stag Hunt, and Chicken (anti-coordination) as your three main examples for comparing other things to...
- warlog 5y agoIs one of those games equivalent to snow drift?
- Sniffnoy 5y agoChicken and Snowdrift are two names for the same thing, yes.
- xyzzy21 5y agoA major limitation of "prisoner's dilemma" is that it's a single-play game. Most real world games are iterated with information passing cycle to cycle which radically changes the optimal strategy.