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Re:Game Theory – Prison Breakthrough by stale2002 on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:43PM (#12322395)
It does NOT pay off to reduce emissions, in the short term or the long term.

A single factory will not suffer the consequences of global warming, and has an incentive to produce as many bad emmisions as possible, and make OTHER people pay for the consequences.

That's why it is a prisoners dilemma.

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Re:Game Theory – Prison Breakthrough by j2kun on Friday August 19, 2016 @03:09PM (#12322664)
It pays off in a less tangible sense, that the people who run the factory will have a successful line of children.

> That's why it is a prisoners dilemma.

I disagree. In the prisoner's dilemma the prisoner chooses to defect despite it ultimately and predictably having a negative effect on himself personally.

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