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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by mch82 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:11AM (#17967008)
So you choose the suboptimal box in the prisoners’ dilemma?
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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by xphx on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:07PM (#17972672)
Hopefully useful nitpick: In the "prisoner's dilemma", it's the dominant strategy. It's only sub-optimal in the /iterated/ prisoner's dilemma, the ominous reason being an expectation of continuity.
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