MarkusRamikin comments on Introduction to Prisoners' Dilemma - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Yvain 30 June 2012 12:54AM

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Comment author: MarkusRamikin 30 June 2012 06:47:50AM *  6 points [-]

What's the benefit of using decisions trees over a table here? It seems to me it just forces you to keep clarifying about the impression they give that the second decision happens after the first and in knowledge of the first. Which was true last time you used decision trees (the chess example) so if anyone actually new to these ideas and needing to think about them is reading this, they might find that confusing.

Comment author: Yvain 03 July 2012 03:13:35AM 1 point [-]

I chose to use trees to keep it consistent with the previous representation and to show the logical painfully clearly at each step. I figured that without actually showing how at each step you could eliminate some options as impossible, it would be harder for newbies to understand.