[SEQ RERUN] Fairness vs. Goodness

Today’s post, Fairness vs. Goodness was originally published on 22 February 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

An experiment in which two unprepared subjects play an asymmetric version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Is the best outcome the one where each player gets as many points as possible, or the one in which each player gets about the same number of points?


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