Andreas_Giger comments on Real World Solutions to Prisoners' Dilemmas - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Andreas_Giger 03 July 2012 01:35:50PM *  1 point [-]

It's not Chicken either, because of the reason you just gave.

Edit: Seeing how this post got downvoted with no reply being posted, I have to assume it was someone who doesn't know much about game theory, so let me explain:

If the terrorists gain no extra value from killing a hostage if the government pays, then DC > CC is false for the terrorist side; however both PD and Chicken are symmetrical problems that require DC > CC to be true for all sides. Therefore, this problem is neither PD nor Chicken.