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Desrtopa comments on When is Winning not Winning? - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: Eneasz 22 May 2012 04:25PM

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Comment author: Desrtopa 22 May 2012 05:04:02PM 5 points [-]

This is why I have much lower expectations for individual rationality than group rationality. Sometimes, strong individual rationality in a low rationality population can't really do better than implementing solutions like defecting in a tragedy of the commons that a more rational group could have avoided in the first place.