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A comment on Paradoxical Geniuses: “Let us burn the ships” (2017). Parent comment

Re:Paradoxical Geniuses: “Let us burn the ships” (2017) by dodobirdlord on Thursday November 28, 2019 @03:28PM (#21659985)
This is an example of the more general game theory advantage of commitment.[0, 1] An agent in a multi-agent game benefits from being able to commit to a strategy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precommitment

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/game-theory/commitment/...

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Re:Paradoxical Geniuses: “Let us burn the ships” (2017) by satori99 on Thursday November 28, 2019 @06:38PM (#21660885)
There is great demonstration of this in action on a British game show with the players being in a prisoners dilemma situation;

https://youtu.be/S0qjK3TWZE8?t=72

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