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You're missing the forest for the trees. The fact that some people's utility function supports not stealing by default is irrelevant to the structure of the gam
by Russell91 12y ago
You're missing the forest for the trees. The fact that some people's utility function supports not stealing by default is irrelevant to the structure of the game. It's still a prisoners dilemma and the existence of the police is justified in its efforts to modify the game's structure.
- tedks 12y agoIt's not a prisoner's dilemma. A prisoner's dilemma is a wholly fictional and game-theoretic construct involving single, isolated interactions among perfectly rational agents. None of that has anything to do with humans. Humans never play the prisoner's dilemma because they're never any of the above concepts. Humans are certainly not perfectly rational, and almost always interact with the same set of people. You can't apply such an abstraction to public policy.
- Russell91 12y agoYea, right... You can't apply math to public policy - only stories and soft science. Math is absolutely useless because it's abstract and ... "fictional".