V_V comments on 2013 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

78 Post author: Yvain 22 November 2013 09:26AM

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Comment author: V_V 24 November 2013 08:56:09PM 11 points [-]

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)?

Comment author: Benquo 25 November 2013 10:02:07PM 3 points [-]

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?

Comment author: V_V 25 November 2013 10:09:24PM 3 points [-]

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