philh comments on Stupid Questions February 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: philh 15 February 2015 07:26:22PM -2 points [-]

This doesn't feel like either of those, to me.

Tragedy of the commons and NIMBY seem like they have symmetric Nash equilibria where the total payoff is terrible. In the farmer's dilemma, the Nash equilibria are asymmetric, at D/C and C/D, and these are optimal in terms of total utility, but they're unfair.