In my opinion the "Prisoner's Dilemma" would be a lot easier to explain if instead of this prisoner/police framing it was about whether people decide to wear facemasks during a COVID-19 wave
If your cost of wearing a mask is sufficiently high (so that it's larger than the benefit from reduction of likelihood of getting infected by _also_ wearing a mask).
@robryk@munin the prisoner's dilemma would still be interesting if the "other defects, you cooperate" situation provided an only-minor personal benefit rather than actual personal harm.
@robryk@munin I think the prisoner's dilemma is most interesting when you start varying the parameters (how much does it harm or hurt prisoner [n] to cooperate or not cooperate? how many prisoners are there? can you voluntarily quit the game?) and notice how it changes things.
If we talk about rewards for me and denote moves by [my move][other's move] and assume symmetric game then normal prisoner dilemma has deco>coco>dede>code. You are proposing that code has a larger reward. Do you mean that it's between coco and dede (so deco>coco>code>dede)?
@robryk@munin I don't understand the question and I am not sure the answer matters. I am not proposing anything. I drew a diagram. I assert that it is a diagram
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it's not about the actual cost per se, but each individual's perception of the cost.