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

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Comment author: wedrifid 11 April 2013 05:39:21PM *  2 points [-]

Defecting proactively is betrayal. Defecting reactively is punishment.

We seem to have strong negative opinions of the former and somewhat positive opinions of the latter.

And for this reason we tend to be predisposed to interpreting the behavior of enemies as 'proactive/betrayal' and our own as 'reactive/punishment' (where we acknowledge that we have defected at all).