A lot of people like to use the prisoner’s dilemma to justify being shitty to other humans they personally know.
Can you post a specific example of someone using the prisoner’s dilemma to justify being shitty to someone they personally know? One of the preconditions of the prisoners’ dilemma is that the prisoners don’t know one another very well (else, otherwise, they’d have come up with some kind of prearranged strategy). You see this with real prisoners and real gangs: they often flow along family and social lines, precisely because you can rely on your brother or a childhood friend when you’ve both been arrested, in a way that you can’t with a relatively unknown stranger.
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Can you post a specific example of someone using the prisoner’s dilemma to justify being shitty to someone they personally know? One of the preconditions of the prisoners’ dilemma is that the prisoners don’t know one another very well (else, otherwise, they’d have come up with some kind of prearranged strategy). You see this with real prisoners and real gangs: they often flow along family and social lines, precisely because you can rely on your brother or a childhood friend when you’ve both been arrested, in a way that you can’t with a relatively unknown stranger.