Prisoner's Dilemma

Poundstone, W. (1992). Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb. Doubleday.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1992

Link

https://archive.org/details/prisonersdilemma00pounmatched

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• Social Dilemma
  • A social dilemma — most widely recognized in its canonical two-player form, the Prisoner's Dilemma, formalized by Tucker (1950) when he attached the now-iconic interrogation story to a payoff matrix Flood and Dresher had constructed at RAND that same year — is the structural pattern in which each agent holds a dominant strategy (defect) that is best regardless of what any other agent does, yet the outcome of universal defection is strictly worse for everyone than universal cooperation would have been.

    This sourceDocuments the history of the prisoner's dilemma: Flood and Dresher constructed the payoff game at RAND in 1950, and Albert W. Tucker attached the now-iconic interrogation narrative to make it accessible to a Stanford psychology audience.

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