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From Slashdot: 'Tit for Tat' Defeated In Prisoner's Dilemma Challenge. I think about the Prisoner's Dilemma a few times every week. I'd like to see some liberal and conservative think tanks generate a paper with the following thesis: In a national version of the Prisoner's Dilemma, the two party political system encourages political outliers, on both sides, to be defectors.

Posted by David Jacobs on October 14, 2004 5:00 PM |

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Or, perhaps, the Naderite Corollary: the two parties collude (as did the Southampton players) to screw everyone else.

Posted by: M E-L | October 14, 2004 11:17 PM

dj-

In agreement with you.

Where do you think they are heading?

Posted by: hk | October 15, 2004 12:41 AM

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