At 2025-02-16T04:37:46+0100, onf wrote: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOvAbjfJ0x0 > > Take note that (IIRC) the conclusion of research surrounding the > Prisoner's Dilemma has been that the best strategy is to reciprocate, > but also sometimes forgive.
Yes. The conclusion of the video, IIRC, is that the "tit-for-two-tats" strategy is more effective than simpler ones. This is where each of unique partner gets one free initial defection, because that might have been mistaked. But if they defect twice (in a row?), the evolutionarily stable strategy (to perhaps abuse Maynard Smith's term) is to defect forever more. As I think you're suggesting, at a larger scale, or involving games/scenarios more complex than iterated prisoner's dilemma, occasionally something similar to a debt jubilee may be warranted. I note with interest that a lot of people who otherwise find forms of social and state organization practiced in the Old Testament of the Bible seem conspicuously to omit this practice of regularly zeroing out debts after (at most) every forty-nine years, or upon accession of a new monarch. Surely this oversight has nothing to do with the ownership of most consumer debt in by those occupying the commanding heights of our economies. Okay, back to my vegetables--I believe I owe you a reply regarding `cs` and Doug one regarding some...strange arithmetic in grolj4(1). Regards, Branden
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