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TL;DR: If there were prisoner's dilemmas being run in parallel with vastly skewed payoffs in different directions, it would be beneficial if all parties could change their strategies to accommodate this.
Methinks we have gone well past the deep-end of barely-relevant hypotheticals, and are currently swimming somewhere in the concrete under the bleachers. This is doubly true when it's assumed you are ignorant of these other entities, simply because you have absolutely no reason to suspect they exist, or their relative frequencies. Why have you even bothered privileging this hypothesis?
This is a misuse of the 'privileging this hypothesis' phrase. A barely relevant hypothetical is not a hypothesis. Such a hypothetical could be used rhetorically in order to advocate an implicit privileged hypothesis but that is not what the author has done here.
(This means only that you need a different name for your objection.)