RE: A Simple Explanation of The Prisoner's Dilemma

[thecryptofiend]

Funny: the example you give will only be accepted at face value by folks with less than a full ration of common sense. A more normal kind of fellow would add, "and the defector gets punished by the co-operator on the schoolyard."

I never thought about that! I think that is the issue with studying human behaviour you can only model it so far in my opinion. I'm sure the experts will disagree but I can claim ignorance on that for now:)

Great song! Never heard it before.

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[nxtblg]

Thanks! Funny: I didn't clue in until I read Sylvia Nasar's bio of John Nash, the original A Beautiful Mind She included two anecdotes from his grad-school days that sealed my hunch shut:

• When Nash was ticked off at Stephen Smale, he solved ice down the back of Smale's shirt.
• Nash was an excellent Go player, but he lost one - and he walked away from the game crying.

[thecryptofiend]

I really must look into Go - have heard so much about it lately but I know nothing about it! I think an AI defeated the no.1 player not too long ago.

[nxtblg]

You're right.

"In a Huge Breakthrough, Google’s AI Beats a Top Player at the Game of Go"

IN A MAJOR breakthrough for artificial intelligence, a computing system developed by Google researchers in Great Britain has beaten a top human player at the game of Go, the ancient Eastern contest of strategy and intuition that has bedeviled AI experts for decades.

[thecryptofiend]

Yes thought so:)