cousin_it comments on The continued misuse of the Prisoner's Dilemma - Less Wrong

29 Post author: SilasBarta 23 October 2009 03:48AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 23 October 2009 12:59:29PM *  3 points [-]

Thanks. So they saw the game as another nuisance that the teachers thought up... As my game theory book says, "there's really no point in playing poker except for sums of money it would really hurt to lose".

Comment author: Alicorn 23 October 2009 01:01:08PM *  2 points [-]

I didn't think that asking them all to put up cash would have gone over well, or I might have tried it. Besides, I got reimbursed for the candy and got to keep the leftovers.