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Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma, as explained in the post below. What do you do?
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Testify
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4 23.53%
Stay silent
76.47%
13 76.47%
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Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma.
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RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma.
(November 24, 2017 at 4:42 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Stay silent. I won't have to feel horrible about myself for turning on my partner, and I would trust my partner not to turn me in either.

So far I'm pretty glad with these results because I would do the same! In this kind of situation I would assume goodwill from both parties.

That being said, it would heavily depend who my partner is. Someone like my sister there would be zero question in my mind that we'd both stay silent. If I were paired with someone who I though was selfish, though, I might choose to betray them. I was reading about this and technically the optimal strategy, mathematically, is to betray your partner every time. But IRL when they've studied this people are naturally more prone to cooperating.

(November 24, 2017 at 4:59 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I do have to take into consideration that if I testify, and he doesn't, he's still getting out in three years. And everyone we know that's in the business knows me for a snitch that can't be worked with. I sit in there for three years, and I'm basically a martyr. Or a schmuck, depending on what other people think.

Oh, I believe one assumption of the problem is supposed to be that there is no way for the person to retaliate or for there to be any punishment / impact on reputation for what you choose.
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Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 24, 2017 at 4:23 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 24, 2017 at 5:05 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Chad32 - November 24, 2017 at 6:06 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Anomalocaris - November 25, 2017 at 9:06 am
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Chad32 - November 24, 2017 at 4:59 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Brian37 - November 24, 2017 at 5:13 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 24, 2017 at 6:29 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Succubus - November 24, 2017 at 7:07 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 24, 2017 at 7:14 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Succubus - November 24, 2017 at 7:17 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Jackalope - November 24, 2017 at 7:18 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 24, 2017 at 7:27 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Jackalope - November 25, 2017 at 2:46 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by vorlon13 - November 24, 2017 at 10:01 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Edwardo Piet - November 25, 2017 at 8:12 am
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 25, 2017 at 1:54 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Chad32 - November 25, 2017 at 11:25 am
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Edwardo Piet - November 25, 2017 at 2:43 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 25, 2017 at 3:00 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Edwardo Piet - November 25, 2017 at 3:03 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by shadow - November 25, 2017 at 3:32 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Edwardo Piet - November 25, 2017 at 4:27 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Edwardo Piet - November 25, 2017 at 3:08 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Nay_Sayer - November 25, 2017 at 3:44 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Edwardo Piet - November 25, 2017 at 5:01 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Jackalope - November 25, 2017 at 5:02 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Aegon - November 25, 2017 at 5:00 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by vorlon13 - November 25, 2017 at 5:13 pm
RE: Poll: You're in the Prisoner's Dilemma. - by Edwardo Piet - November 25, 2017 at 5:05 pm

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