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oppy1984@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoI’m familiar with the prisoners dilemma but not the stag hunt aspect, I’ll have to take your word for it until I have time to read up on that.
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oppy1984@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoI’m familiar with the prisoners dilemma but not the stag hunt aspect, I’ll have to take your word for it until I have time to read up on that.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Prisoner’s dilemmas are interesting because cooperation is socially optimal but not sustained by a Nash equilibrium. Cooperation is fragile. It’s a little “doom and gloom.” Are social species destined to be individualistic selfish assholes?
Under certain conditions, a repeated prisoner’s dilemma becomes a stag hunt. Stag hunts are interesting because cooperation is, in fact, sustained by a Nash equilibrium. But it’s not for free: there’s also a suboptimal Nash equilibrium that could be hard to get out of.
But the moral is that there’s incentive to not be an asshole if there’s a high probability of future encounters.
oppy1984@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Thanks for the explanation, I finally had a little time to read up on the stag hunt aspect and what I read basically said what you said just in a more long winded way, lol.