V_V comments on 2013 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong
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What about being the ultimate defector and submitting multiple times to increase your chances of winning (and screwing up the survey results as a side effect)?
Hmm, or you could just do four times as many "cooperate" dummy entries, similarly increase your chance of winning, and increase the size of the prize as well. Are "No I will screw things up" answers counted towards the PD?
But that would still be a defection on a meta-level towards the people who played a single time.
If you account for the possibility of playing multiple times, this game is an example of the Tragedy of the commons