I’m saying it’s a Nash equilibrium, not that it’s particularly realistic.
They push it to 100 because they expect everyone else to do so, and they expect that if anyone sets it to less than 100, the equilibrium temperature in the round after that will be 100 instead of 99. If everyone else is going to select 100, it’s futile to individually deviate and set the temperature to 30, because that means in the next round everyone but you will set it to 100 again, and that’s not worth being able to individually set it to 30 in this round.
After giving it some thought, I do see a lot of real-life situations where you get to such a place.
For instance- I was recently watching The Vow, the documentary about the NXIVM cult (“nexium”). In very broad strokes, one of the core fucked up things the leader does, is to gaslight the members into thinking that pain is good. If you resist him, don’t like what he says, etc, there is something deficient in you. After a while, even when he’s not in the picture so it would make sense for everyone to suffer less and get some slack, people punish each other for being deficient or weak.
And now that I wrote it about NXIVM I imagine those dynamics are actually commonplace in everyday society too.
I’m saying it’s a Nash equilibrium, not that it’s particularly realistic.
They push it to 100 because they expect everyone else to do so, and they expect that if anyone sets it to less than 100, the equilibrium temperature in the round after that will be 100 instead of 99. If everyone else is going to select 100, it’s futile to individually deviate and set the temperature to 30, because that means in the next round everyone but you will set it to 100 again, and that’s not worth being able to individually set it to 30 in this round.
Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying!
After giving it some thought, I do see a lot of real-life situations where you get to such a place.
For instance-
I was recently watching The Vow, the documentary about the NXIVM cult (“nexium”).
In very broad strokes, one of the core fucked up things the leader does, is to gaslight the members into thinking that pain is good. If you resist him, don’t like what he says, etc, there is something deficient in you. After a while, even when he’s not in the picture so it would make sense for everyone to suffer less and get some slack, people punish each other for being deficient or weak.
And now that I wrote it about NXIVM I imagine those dynamics are actually commonplace in everyday society too.