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Eight Short Studies On Excuses — LessWrong

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The Clumsy Game-Player • You and a partner are playing an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Both of you have publicly pre-committed to the tit-for-tat str…

x Eight Short Studies On Excuses — LessWrong Argument and Analysis Game Theory AI Risk Affective Death Spiral AI Questions Open Threads Group Rationality Life Improvements More Dakka Rationality Practical AI Frontpage 909 Eight Short Studies On Excuses by Scott Alexander 20th Apr 2010 12 min read 255 909 The Clumsy Game-Player You and a partner are playing an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Both of you have publicly pre-committed to the tit-for-tat strategy. By iteration 5, you're going happily along, raking up the bonuses of cooperation, when your partner unexpectedly presses the "defect" button

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