SilasBarta 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: wedrifid 25 October 2009 01:58:04PM 3 points [-]

It isn't the prisoner's dilemma and Hamerish did not describe it as such. It is similar to the Prisoner's Dilemma in as much as, well it is to do with game theory and people could cooperate. The title of this post is a misuse of 'Prisoner's Dilemma'.

Comment author: SilasBarta 25 October 2009 03:13:54PM 0 points [-]

There's a deeper similarity to the PD and I explained it in the original post.

Comment author: wedrifid 25 October 2009 04:12:27PM 0 points [-]

We cannot draw conclusions about whether Hamerish believes the Prisoner's Dilemma is a dilemma just because one element of the game he described is the potential for collusion.