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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by ipnon on Thursday December 23, 2021 @06:46PM (#29667991)
The prisoner's dilemma shows us that the optimal strategy is screwing everyone else over if you aren't certain that they won't do the same to you.
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Re:How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs by dwaltrip on Friday December 24, 2021 @01:02AM (#29670766)
The prisoner's dilemma is a very insufficient model for the complexity of human life...

The iterated prisoner's dilemma is a little better. It's still just a toy model, of course. However, you might be interested to find that those who only screw everyone else over don't fair well in the iterated version.

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