and this is exactly the problem: If your behavior on the prisoner’s dilemma changes with the size of the outcome, then you aren’t really playing the prisoner’s dilemma. Your calculation in the low-payoff case was being confused by other terms in your utility function, terms for being someone who cooperates—terms that didn’t scale.
Yes, my point was that my variable skepticism is surely evidence of bias or rationalization, and that we can’t learn much from “mild” PD. I do also agree that warm fuzzies from being a cooperator don’t scale.
and this is exactly the problem: If your behavior on the prisoner’s dilemma changes with the size of the outcome, then you aren’t really playing the prisoner’s dilemma. Your calculation in the low-payoff case was being confused by other terms in your utility function, terms for being someone who cooperates—terms that didn’t scale.
Yes, my point was that my variable skepticism is surely evidence of bias or rationalization, and that we can’t learn much from “mild” PD. I do also agree that warm fuzzies from being a cooperator don’t scale.