prisoner's dilemma
description: canonical example of a game analyzed in game theory
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Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb
by William Poundstone · 2 Jan 1993 · 323pp · 100,772 words
, Edward Teller, and Nicholas A. Vonneuman. CONTENTS Cover Other Books by this Author Title Page Dedication Acknowledgments 1 DILEMMAS The Nuclear Dilemma John von Neumann Prisoner’s Dilemma 2 JOHN VON NEUMANN The Child Prodigy Kun’s Hungary Early Career The Institute Klara Personality The Sturm und Drang Period The Best Brain in
The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
by Sebastian Mallaby; · 30 Mar 2026 · 607pp · 161,998 words
-weight models. The US-China race dynamic made it almost impossible to stanch the intra-US race dynamic. Since there was no escape from this prisoner’s dilemma, Hassabis focused his attention elsewhere. He pushed his burgeoning Gemini team to advance as fast as possible: If there had to be a race, he
Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits
by Richard Davies · 4 Sep 2019 · 412pp · 128,042 words
fund the public services and infrastructure that might improve trust in government. A more cooperative system would surely lead to better outcomes, but as the Prisoner’s Dilemma of economics shows, this can be impossible to sustain, and it is possible to get stuck in this kind of negative loop indefinitely. Kinshasa destroys
Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us From Citizen Kings to Market Servants
by Maurice E. Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi · 14 May 2020 · 511pp · 132,682 words
cognitive costs, it would be harder for consumers to discover a hotel with no resort fee that offers a better deal. This situation suggests a “Prisoner’s Dilemma” style game where the efficient outcome cannot be achieved because any hotel offering a better deal without a resort fee will lose business to competitors
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker · 24 Sep 2012 · 1,351pp · 385,579 words
aggression 502 8–3 Human brain, showing the major cortical regions that regulate aggression 503 8–4 Human brain, medial view 504 8–5 The Prisoner’s Dilemma 533 8–6 Apologies by political and religious leaders, 1900–2004 544 9–1 Implicit interest rates in England, 1170–2000 610 9–2 The
The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
by Michael Huemer · 29 Oct 2012 · 577pp · 149,554 words
relatively minor sanctions, I focus on the coercive enforcement mechanism. 39 As Caplan and Stringham (2007, 299–302) put it, the cartel agencies face a prisoner’s dilemma with each other, in which it pays each to renege on the agreement to punish outsider agencies. 40 Klosko 2005, 30–3. 41 Klosko (2005
Underground
by Suelette Dreyfus · 1 Jan 2011 · 547pp · 160,071 words
Holy Grail 6 Page 1, The New York Times 7 Judgement Day 8 The International Subversives 9 Operation Weather 10 Anthrax – The Outsider 11 The Prisoner’s Dilemma Afterword Conclusion Glossary and Abbreviations Notes Bibliography To Peter, Audrey, Beatrice and my parents SD To D, F, S and A JA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS There are
The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
by Matt Mason
situations in which decision makers interact with other agents, and often assumes individuals will act only in their own self-interest. A game called the Prisoner's Dilemma is a simple, well-known game used to illustrate this point. Developed in the 1950s by the RAND corporation (a global policy think tank which
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. Game theory is an incredibly useful tool, and more advanced versions of the game allow for cooperation between players, but according to the most basic Prisoner's Dilemma game outlined here, the idea of people acting in the interests of one another is naive. But in practice, it is obvious the game is
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of the courts. The decision each player makes about how to respond also poses a threat to the other player, as it does in a Prisoner's Dilemma. If pirates begin to have a serious effect on their market share, both Players A and B will (or at least, should) be tempted to
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long term. In this case, the player who competes first will stand a better chance of gaining the advantage. In the simple version of the Prisoner's Dilemma, only self-interest rules. But in a Pirate's Dilemma, what's best for society as a whole is also an important factor. Because players
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, The Philosophy of Punk (Oakland, CA: AK Press, 1999), p. 21. OUTRO: The Pirate's Dilemma: Changing the Game Theory The version of the simple prisoner's dilemma game used here is from: John Eatwell, Murray Millgate, Peter Newman (eds), New Palgrave Series: Game Theory (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989). Muhammad Yunus
Complexity: A Guided Tour
by Melanie Mitchell · 31 Mar 2009 · 524pp · 120,182 words
science, I now delve into a few examples of particular idea models in the social sciences, starting with the best-known one of all: the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Modeling the Evolution of Cooperation Many biologists and social scientists have used idea models to explore what conditions can lead to the evolution of cooperation
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
by Nate Silver · 12 Aug 2024 · 848pp · 227,015 words
that game theory only applies to zero-sum problems. Instead, the most famous example from game theory is about the failure to achieve cooperation. The prisoner’s dilemma, first described in 1950 by Melvin Dresher and Merrill Flood, traditionally referred to two members of a criminal gang who were arrested and imprisoned. But
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner · 11 Apr 2005 · 339pp · 95,988 words
Think Complexity
by Allen B. Downey · 23 Feb 2012 · 247pp · 43,430 words
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
by Timothy Garton Ash · 23 May 2016 · 743pp · 201,651 words
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
by Annie Jacobsen · 14 Sep 2015 · 558pp · 164,627 words
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths · 4 Apr 2016 · 523pp · 143,139 words
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by Robert M. Sapolsky · 1 May 2017 · 1,261pp · 294,715 words
A Beautiful Mind
by Sylvia Nasar · 11 Jun 1998 · 998pp · 211,235 words
The Man From the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
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Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
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The Selfish Gene
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Libertarian Idea
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
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Strategy: A History
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
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Competition Demystified
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SuperFreakonomics
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
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The Science of Hate: How Prejudice Becomes Hate and What We Can Do to Stop It
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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
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by Jonathan Aldred · 5 Jun 2019 · 453pp · 111,010 words
How the World Works
by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman and David Barsamian · 13 Sep 2011 · 489pp · 111,305 words
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
by Steven Pinker · 14 Oct 2021 · 533pp · 125,495 words
Clan Corporate
by Stross, Charles · 28 Aug 2006 · 363pp · 104,113 words
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
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The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
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The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life
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The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for It Every Time
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Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
by Suzanne Simard · 3 May 2021 · 392pp · 124,069 words
Economic Dignity
by Gene Sperling · 14 Sep 2020 · 667pp · 149,811 words
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
by Iain McGilchrist · 8 Oct 2012
The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
by Scott Carney and Jason Miklian · 28 Mar 2022 · 553pp · 153,028 words
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright · 28 Dec 2010
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
by Edward Slingerland · 31 May 2021
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
by Bradley Hope · 1 Nov 2022 · 257pp · 77,612 words
Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability With Solutions
by Frederick Mosteller · 15 May 1965
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder · 1 Sep 2008 · 1,336pp · 415,037 words
The Village Effect: How Face-To-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
by Susan Pinker · 30 Sep 2013 · 404pp · 124,705 words
Hacking Politics: How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet
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Glasshouse
by Charles Stross · 14 Jun 2006 · 443pp · 123,526 words
A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
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Green Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 23 Oct 1993 · 746pp · 239,969 words
Liars and Outliers: How Security Holds Society Together
by Bruce Schneier · 14 Feb 2012 · 503pp · 131,064 words
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
by Richard H. Thaler · 10 May 2015 · 500pp · 145,005 words
Kiln People
by David Brin · 15 Jan 2002 · 625pp · 167,097 words
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy
by Mervyn King · 3 Mar 2016 · 464pp · 139,088 words
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Red Plenty
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Culture and Prosperity: The Truth About Markets - Why Some Nations Are Rich but Most Remain Poor
by John Kay · 24 May 2004 · 436pp · 76 words
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
by Steve Coll · 30 Apr 2012 · 944pp · 243,883 words
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This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
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The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
by Yascha Mounk · 26 Sep 2023
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by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1997 · 913pp · 265,787 words
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The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
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