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The Prisoners Dilemma
I was reasearching the Trojan War ( The one with the great big wooden horse) and the book I was reading had a reference to another book on prisoners and war. It was a bit more modern than the trojan war, but pretty old fashioned. It had a reference to a website. On that website, it told me about the prisoners dillema.
It refers to a case were two prisoners are being held in seperate cells. The police lack evidice for a major charge. Each prisoners get a choice to betray there friend or remain silent. If both remain silent, each of them recieves six months in jail. That is realatively light considering the other charges. If they both betray the other they each recive five years in jail. If one remians silent while the other betrays him, the person who remains silent reicives ten years in jail, while the other gets off scot free. I personaly would betray the other prisoner.
there is a really interesting theory, though. By following a norrowly self interested sratagy that minimimizes his own potentiol harm, each prisoner has an inishvitive to betray the other, even though the best possible result would be if both stayed silent.
( This is a two player game)
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November 12th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
You have done a really good job at describing the Prisoner’s Dilemma, Katie! Believe it or not, most of the time, when this game is played, both players go to ‘jail’ for the maximum time, because they almost always tell on each other. You are learning about some pretty advanced stuff here, as this is the subject of some second year politics courses at university!
November 18th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
cool game katie!!!!!!I like playing it with 5 people and the other choices with 5 people better.
December 13th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
@angel, You mean the way we played with the judge? It was interesting…having a judge is helpfull.
December 13th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
@Mr. Baird, I know. I saw somthing about it on my moms homwork.Thats where I found out about the theorie.