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Re:FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be r... by zmgsabst on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @07:28AM (#32150079)
Reciprocity is so fundamental to nature that people can’t stop doing it:

Most of the studies about “people are irrational” are times psychologists fail to realize that people are acting on an iterated (rather than single round) game — and enforcing reciprocity through their “irrational” acts.

We know at an instinctive level that reciprocity is necessary in game theory — eg, Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma.

Re:FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be r... by aesch on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:51PM (#32154521)
Reciprocity is necessary but one of the best strategies for iterated prisoner's dilemma is tit-for-tat or "equivalent retaliation". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

You always start out by cooperating but if someone defects on you, you defect on them.

Re:FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be r... by mnw21cam on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @10:37AM (#32152160)
There are situations where it is entirely rational and advantageous to make people think you are irrational.