Can this situation be modeled as a prisoner’s dilemma in a useful way? There seem to be some important differences.
For example, if both ‘prisoners’ have the same strain of herpes, then the utility for mutual defection is positive for both participants. That is, they get the sex they were looking for, with no further herpes.
Can this situation be modeled as a prisoner’s dilemma in a useful way? There seem to be some important differences.
For example, if both ‘prisoners’ have the same strain of herpes, then the utility for mutual defection is positive for both participants. That is, they get the sex they were looking for, with no further herpes.
Not prisoner’s dilemma, but successful coordination to which a decrease in the spread of HIV in the gay community is attributed: serosorting.