I’d be pleased if social pecking orders do form out of iterated chicken. I’m really curious what happens in the absence of agent variations. Are there standard examples of iterated chicken in social interaction? The story of who of my wife and I does the cleaning, e.g., was until recently an iterated game of “who can stand the gunk the longest,” and I feel like a number of recurrent social interactions such as awkward silences might be recast into such a framework.
The Chinese traffic pattern I was referring to: we drove down a bunch of one-lane two-way roads in the city with just barely enough space to pull over and let other cars squeeze through. A number of times we were just barrelling down these streets at each other and stopping to pull over way past the time I would have wanted to.
There’s a similar interaction with pedestrians; oftentimes pedestrians will just walk into a smaller street without a crosswalk despite the eminently visible incoming vehicle with no signs of stopping, and expect the vehicle to slow down for them.
I’d be pleased if social pecking orders do form out of iterated chicken. I’m really curious what happens in the absence of agent variations. Are there standard examples of iterated chicken in social interaction? The story of who of my wife and I does the cleaning, e.g., was until recently an iterated game of “who can stand the gunk the longest,” and I feel like a number of recurrent social interactions such as awkward silences might be recast into such a framework.
The Chinese traffic pattern I was referring to: we drove down a bunch of one-lane two-way roads in the city with just barely enough space to pull over and let other cars squeeze through. A number of times we were just barrelling down these streets at each other and stopping to pull over way past the time I would have wanted to.
There’s a similar interaction with pedestrians; oftentimes pedestrians will just walk into a smaller street without a crosswalk despite the eminently visible incoming vehicle with no signs of stopping, and expect the vehicle to slow down for them.