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Comment author: tut 03 June 2014 04:10:27PM *  0 points [-]

there is a Nash equilibrium that is not Pareto optimal

Like Stag Hunt.

What they argue is that mechanisms for producing mutual cooperation in games like your more expansive formulation but that don't match the deliberately conservative formulation might have been important in the evolution of cooperativeness.