My guess is that it’s intended as an example of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Then again, nearly every morality-related situation is...
Tit-for-tat in the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma, specifically. It also poses the question: how good a strategy is it to combine humor with mortal threats?
It looked to me like a perfect, textbook example of a Schelling-type Threat; but maybe that’s just because I’m reading The Strategy of Conflict.
Well spotted; I missed that.
My guess is that it’s intended as an example of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Then again, nearly every morality-related situation is...
Tit-for-tat in the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma, specifically. It also poses the question: how good a strategy is it to combine humor with mortal threats?
It looked to me like a perfect, textbook example of a Schelling-type Threat; but maybe that’s just because I’m reading The Strategy of Conflict.
Well spotted; I missed that.