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Good point, though this suggests to me that there might be more than one type of joker; Loki: likes eternal chaos, so fits your model. Ice Giants: likes Ragna
by ktizo 15y ago
Good point, though this suggests to me that there might be more than one type of joker;
Loki: likes eternal chaos, so fits your model.
Ice Giants: likes Ragnarök, so only sleeps or destroys.
However, both Loki and the Ice Giants could conceivably decide to act as cooperators if they suspect that there are a large number of defectors who are currently acting as cooperators, with the aim of overwhelming the cooperators by switching back to being jokers when the other fake cooperators switch back to being defectors.
[edit] Also, 'Loki and the Ice Giants' would make a really good band name, or possibly a tumblr site (nod to the xkcd enthusiasts).
- angersock 15y agoI like your choice of terms! :) Hm.... Ice Giants would seem to suggest a fourth state, one of pure inactivity. I would almost say that you could model these modes (as the paper does) by changing the damage value to be 0 (dormant, effectively, Ice Giants) for some chosen system conditions. Were you to assign a negative damage, you might be able to model jokers-as-cooperator. The interesting (perhaps most interesting) thing about the Jokers is that they have no stake in the system. So, I wonder how to account/model that in a Jokers-can-become-Coopearators system. Hm.