Three reasons to cooperate – The sideways view
In this post I’ll discuss three reasons to cooperate in a truly one-shot prisoner’s dilemma: Kindness: You care about the other player. Correlation. Your decision is correlated with the…
In this post I’ll discuss three reasons to cooperate in a truly one-shot prisoner’s dilemma: Kindness : You care about the other player. Correlation . Your decision is correlated with the other player’s decision. Reciprocity . Your decision is correlated with the other player’s belief about your decision. Kindness makes common sense, but correlation and reciprocity are often lumped together under “weird acausal stuff.” I think they are worth distinguishing because they work quite differently. I’ll talk about details of correlation and reciprocity, and
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