Was I the only person who shamelessly defected only because the defect/cooperate choice isn’t really a prisoner’s dilemma at all? Obviously, if enough of us defect that the payout is diminished, the winner receives less, but whoever would be paying for the prize would have that much less money missing from his pocket. I would not have defected if I expected my defection were to result in a net loss of resources. For the 2014 survey, how about we try this again, with the modification if enough people defect for the payout to be reduced, a good of equal market value to the reduction in payout shall be purchased and destroyed? (You can’t just burn the money, because that’s not actual destruction of value, just redistribution of value to everyone else who owns units of that same currency.)
or the 2014 survey, how about we try this again, with the modification if enough people defect for the payout to be reduced, a good of equal market value to the reduction in payout shall be purchased and destroyed?
Or perhaps for every person that defects Yvain forces himself to listen to X minutes of some music he despises, or watch some show he hates?
I really don’t want Yvain to suffer penalties because of the defection of jerks, but that’s what true ‘defection’ must mean, that someone gets hurt. All in all, I can’t advise in good conscience for the test to be repeated next year.
Was I the only person who shamelessly defected only because the defect/cooperate choice isn’t really a prisoner’s dilemma at all? Obviously, if enough of us defect that the payout is diminished, the winner receives less, but whoever would be paying for the prize would have that much less money missing from his pocket. I would not have defected if I expected my defection were to result in a net loss of resources. For the 2014 survey, how about we try this again, with the modification if enough people defect for the payout to be reduced, a good of equal market value to the reduction in payout shall be purchased and destroyed? (You can’t just burn the money, because that’s not actual destruction of value, just redistribution of value to everyone else who owns units of that same currency.)
Nope, I said the same thing here.
Or perhaps for every person that defects Yvain forces himself to listen to X minutes of some music he despises, or watch some show he hates?
I really don’t want Yvain to suffer penalties because of the defection of jerks, but that’s what true ‘defection’ must mean, that someone gets hurt. All in all, I can’t advise in good conscience for the test to be repeated next year.
That’s still not “true defection” though, because we all like Yvain and don’t want to annoy him.