• Posts
  • RSS
  • ◂◂RSS
  • Contact

  • Voting Prisoners Dilemma

    October 21st, 2012
    On election day you find yourself talking to a supporter of the Purple Party. As a member of the Pink Party you find the Purple candidate reprehensible, and you would be quite upset if they won, but of course the Purple supporter feels the opposite way. Neither of you have voted yet, and voting is kind of annyoing, so you'd rather not do it. You propose that instead of voting you both stay home, and they accept. But should you actually stay home?

    The payoffs are:

    You Vote You Stay Home
    They Vote You each have the hassle of voting, your candidates relative rankings are unchanged. They have the hassle of voting, their candiate goes up by one.
    They Stay Home You have the hassle of voting, your candiate goes up by one Both get to not vote, rankings are unchanged.

    I'm not actually interested in how people would answer this; I like it as an alternate statement of the Prisoner's dilemma. Voting is 'defecting', staying home is 'cooperating'.

    Comment via: google plus, facebook

    Recent posts on blogs I like:

    Rereading Roald Dahl

    Taking out a few words doesn't change much. The post Rereading Roald Dahl appeared first on Otherwise.

    via Otherwise March 25, 2023

    What does Bing Chat tell us about AI risk?

    Early signs of catastrophic risk? Yes and no.

    via Cold Takes February 28, 2023

    Why Neighborhoods Should Have Speed Bumps

    I have several reasons I think why neighborhoods should have speed bumps. First, speed bumps are very useful to stop cars from hitting people in the streets. Second, when construction workers installed speed bumps on the street in front of our house it was v…

    via Lily Wise's Blog Posts February 27, 2023

    more     (via openring)


  • Posts
  • RSS
  • ◂◂RSS
  • Contact