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The Prisoner’s Dilemma: The Key To Successful Civilization

Started by Daniel Miessler · 7 months ago

It’s amazing what education can do for a civilization. So much pain and suffering could be avoided if the majority of people in the world could act based on the collective wisdom gathered thus far, rather than being pulled to and fro by our primal instincts.

One example of this is ... Continue reading »

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  • I would suggest that you read:
    Game Theory and Political Theory: An Introduction
    Peter C. Ordeshook
    Published 1986, Cambridge University Press

    End behavior in sequences of finite Prisoner's Dilemma supergames A learning theory approach
    Reinhard Selten and Rolf Stoecker
    University of Bonn, D-5300, Bonn 1, FRG

    Prisoner's Dilemma
    Anatol ( Rapoport
    Contributor Albert M. Chammah
    Published 1965 University of Michigan Press

    And if you get time the last one:
    Kreps and Wilson, 1982. D. Kreps and R. Wilson , Reputation and imperfect information. Journal of Economic Theory 27 (1982), pp. 253–279. Abstract | Full Text Links | PDF (1664 K) | MathSciNet

    Is most critical. The issue is that you require a system of determining reputation.
    In general society, many events are not reported.

    This also demonstrates a pattern where "players" will cooperate until shortly before the end of the "game". At this point, a deviation towards non-cooperative behaviour has been demonstrated as the most effective strategy.

    Regards,
    Craig

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