Robin, the point I’m complaining about is precisely that the standard illustration of the Prisoner’s Dilemma, taught to beginning students of game theory, fails to convey those entries in the payoff matrix—as if the entries were merely money instead of utilons, which is not at all what the Prisoner’s Dilemma is about.
The point of the True Prisoner’s Dilemma is that it gives you a payoff matrix that is very nearly the standard matrix in utilons, not just years in prison or dollars in an encounter.
I.e., you can tell people all day long that the entries are in utilons, but until you give them a visualization where those really are the utilons, it’s around as effective as telling juries to ignore hindsight bias.
Robin, the point I’m complaining about is precisely that the standard illustration of the Prisoner’s Dilemma, taught to beginning students of game theory, fails to convey those entries in the payoff matrix—as if the entries were merely money instead of utilons, which is not at all what the Prisoner’s Dilemma is about.
The point of the True Prisoner’s Dilemma is that it gives you a payoff matrix that is very nearly the standard matrix in utilons, not just years in prison or dollars in an encounter.
I.e., you can tell people all day long that the entries are in utilons, but until you give them a visualization where those really are the utilons, it’s around as effective as telling juries to ignore hindsight bias.