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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

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Huh. It is the same shape, isn't it.

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robryk

@munin @mcc

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).

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mcc

@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.

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You mean if it was better than "both cooperate" but worse than "I defect, the other cooperates"?

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mcc

@robryk @munin It's different. It's still interesting. mastodon.social/@mcc/113200218

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mcc

@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.

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robryk

@mcc @munin

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)?

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mcc

@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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