AShepard comments on Prisoner's Dilemma on game show Golden Balls - Less Wrong

15 Post author: atorm 21 April 2012 12:31AM

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Comment author: AShepard 22 April 2012 03:48:38PM 2 points [-]

To be even more technical, "Prisoner's Dilemma" is actually used as a generic term in game theory. It refers to the set of two-player games with this kind of payoff matrix (see here). The classic prisoners dilemma also adds in the inability to communicate (as well as a bunch of backstory which isn't relevant to the math), but not all prisoners dilemmas need to follow that pattern.

Comment author: DavidAgain 22 April 2012 08:48:10PM 1 point [-]

In game theory terms, I'm not sure communication would do much for a one-off prisoner's dilemma.