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Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:21:54 GMT
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:51:45 GMT, "Richard Franks"
<spontificus@__nospam__yahoo.com> wrote:

To be fair, I have to point out that Prisoners Dilemma requires participants to
be unable to communicate - if you don't know what the other person is going to
do then the safest strategy is the one that gives less consistent drawbacks.
Even if the other strategy is best for everyone concerned.

If there is no communication between people, and no sense of society, then this
could happen though - definately!

Sad as it is, I see neither of these things occur very regularly in
bog cities. Both break down in the context of millions of teeming
ants.

PS. My honours thesis is on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Strategies - could
you tell? :)

Honours, no less? Congratulations... Summa Cum Laude.

Jasper



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(...) Agreed - I guess that's why the whole a-ism thing has very much an emphasis at a low community level. (...) Heh - thanks! I'm still studying for it, so save the congrats for about 5 months until I get it :) Richard (24 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) To be fair, I have to point out that Prisoners Dilemma requires participants to be unable to communicate - if you don't know what the other person is going to do then the safest strategy is the one that gives less consistent drawbacks. Even if (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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