Game theorists discuss one-shot Prisoner’s dilemma, why people who don’t know Game Theory suggest the irrational strategy of cooperating, and how to make them intuitively see that defection is the right move.
The linked post seemed to run far ahead of the presented evidence—and this is a kind of situation in which the scientific method is known to be quite powerful.
Game theorists discuss one-shot Prisoner’s dilemma, why people who don’t know Game Theory suggest the irrational strategy of cooperating, and how to make them intuitively see that defection is the right move.
Interesting. Has this experiment actually been run, and does it change the percentages in the responses relative to the textbook version?
That would be scientific approach to Dark Arts.
The linked post seemed to run far ahead of the presented evidence—and this is a kind of situation in which the scientific method is known to be quite powerful.
Sure. Dark arts don’t stain the power of scientific approach, though probably defy the purpose.