In the classic game of chicken you have two players. In case of two tribes, you have many players, some of them with more complex preferences, such as: “I would prefer to live in peace, but if the war is inevitable then I would prefer my tribe to win”, etc.
Saying that it’s “just a classic game of chicken” is also a claim about which solutions are reachable (tribe 1 wins, or tribe 2 wins) and which are not (the peaceful members of both tribes may together find a system to keep their belligerent comrades under control).
Is reachability just a synonym for “this is complicated” then? Or is there some simple underlying dynamic that you are trying to describe other than the obvious defect/cooperate outcome matrix? “Both sides swerve” is also a potential outcome in a game of chicken.
I understood “reachability” as “according to how the problem is framed, this is a possible solution”. Either because other possible solutions are not even mentioned, or because the speaker insists that they are not possible.
Like, when I give you a false dilemma, I have described a situation which has two reachable outcomes.
In the classic game of chicken you have two players. In case of two tribes, you have many players, some of them with more complex preferences, such as: “I would prefer to live in peace, but if the war is inevitable then I would prefer my tribe to win”, etc.
Saying that it’s “just a classic game of chicken” is also a claim about which solutions are reachable (tribe 1 wins, or tribe 2 wins) and which are not (the peaceful members of both tribes may together find a system to keep their belligerent comrades under control).
Is reachability just a synonym for “this is complicated” then? Or is there some simple underlying dynamic that you are trying to describe other than the obvious defect/cooperate outcome matrix? “Both sides swerve” is also a potential outcome in a game of chicken.
I understood “reachability” as “according to how the problem is framed, this is a possible solution”. Either because other possible solutions are not even mentioned, or because the speaker insists that they are not possible.
Like, when I give you a false dilemma, I have described a situation which has two reachable outcomes.