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Again, from Reddit:

To your credit, you do appear to have actually read and understood the math of the prisoners dilemma, which is far more than most people claiming to refute a well established result in a blog post.

Anyway, there's a lot to unpack to your argument, but superficially it looks like you're basically substituting the iterated variant of the prisoners dilemma for the normal case on the basis that assuming you might be in an iterated situation is the rational thing to do in general? I don't know if that's true, but even if it is, I don't know th

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I'm sharing a comment from Reddit here because I think this will be a common response.

You lost me at this sentence:

The core issue is the assumption of independence between the players.

That assumption is built into what the prisoner’s dilemma is. If the independence of the players is not there, it as a genuinely different game. This is either because the utilities are shifted in some way (either by external forces like a threat by the mob, a contract), or by one’s own ethical sense (violation of one’s ethics can be compiled into loss of utility in players u

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