You don’t think people here have a term for their survey-completing comrades in their cost function? Since I probably won’t win either way this term dominated my own cost function, so I cooperated. An isolated defection can help only me, whereas an isolated cooperation helps everyone else and so gets a large numerical boost for that reason.
It’s true: if you’re optimizing for altruism, cooperation is clearly better.
I guess it’s not really a “dilemma” as such, since the optimal solution doesn’t depend at all on what anyone else does. If you’re trying to maximize EV, defect. If you’re trying to maximize other people’s EV, cooperate.
You don’t think people here have a term for their survey-completing comrades in their cost function? Since I probably won’t win either way this term dominated my own cost function, so I cooperated. An isolated defection can help only me, whereas an isolated cooperation helps everyone else and so gets a large numerical boost for that reason.
It’s true: if you’re optimizing for altruism, cooperation is clearly better.
I guess it’s not really a “dilemma” as such, since the optimal solution doesn’t depend at all on what anyone else does. If you’re trying to maximize EV, defect. If you’re trying to maximize other people’s EV, cooperate.