2010-06-05

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2010-06-05
2010-06-05
Title text: 2010-06-05

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"the prisoner's dilemma"is a concept from the field of game theory.
Imagine two perfectly rational prisoners who don't know what the other is doing.
Each can rat out the other or remain silent, resulting in 4 possible outcomes:
Rat out
Remain silent
Rat out
Both get \ year.
goes free gets 5 years.
goes free gets 5 years.
Remain silent
Both get six months.
If you squeal, you get either 1 or 0 years. If you keep mum, it's 5 or 0.5 years.
So, even though is the best choice, the "perfectly rational people pick
A!!
The dilemma can be applied to morality.
Do unto others as you
Like
Would have them do unto you
Bad for all
Great for horrible for
Like
A
B
Great for
Good for all
Would have them do unto you
Horrible for
The great ethicists of history share essentially one goal: Get strangers to always pick
Some did better than others.
The greatest felicity for all is here! Eh? Come on! Maximize your felicity in square d ! Wooh!
Bentham
A
Is made of fire!
Christ

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Actually happened: 9:00 pm
Testicles joke or math joke? Damn, this is hard.

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