The Prisoner’s Dilemma

[Amazon Climber]

Stealing this from Tumblr. I hope you all know the basic rules, but if you don't, they're pretty simple: You and another collaborator are stuck in separate rooms, being questioned by the cops. If you both keep quiet, they'll put you away for a minor offense for two years. If you betray them but they keep quiet, you go free and they get put away for ten years. Same if you keep quiet and they betray you. But if you both rat each other out, you each get five.

The twist here is that your vote is your choice, but your buddy's is chosen by poll. If Stay Silent wins and you voted Betray, you get off without a hitch; if you voted Stay Silent you get two. But if Betray wins, you get five years if you voted Betray, ten if you voted Stay Silent.

Please don't mention the results until the poll ends. Feel free to try and convince everyone to vote your way, though.

 

[John_Oakman]

For the ones with low self esteem, staying silent is the most sensible choice, becuase chances are the other will betray and said other has a higher value.

 

[ShaynaWest]

Stealing this from Tumblr. I hope you all know the basic rules, but if you don't, they're pretty simple: You and another collaborator are stuck in separate rooms, being questioned by the cops. If you both keep quiet, they'll put you away for a minor offense for two years. If you betray them but they keep quiet, you go free and they get put away for ten years. Same if you keep quiet and they betray you. But if you both rat each other out, you each get five.

The twist here is that your vote is your choice, but your buddy's is chosen by poll. If Stay Silent wins and you voted Betray, you get off without a hitch; if you voted Stay Silent you get two. But if Betray wins, you get five years if you voted Betray, ten if you voted Stay Silent.

Please don't mention the results until the poll ends. Feel free to try and convince everyone to vote your way, though.

I think many people will choose to stay silent. By the way, if anyone over here is looking for someone whom you can pay for research paper then you can visit https://studyclerk.com/pay-for-research-paper here to find essay writer who will help you in completing your essay assignments on the give time.

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I think many people will choose to stay silent.

 

[TheMidnightRook]

Without actually knowing the other prisoner, it's impossible to accurately guess which they'd choose. Silence is therefore a 50/50 between a two year sentence and ten, while betraying them is a 50/50 between five years and freedom...

Betray seems to be the logical choice.

 

[Amazon Climber]

I think many people will choose stay silent.

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That's how it worked out on Tumblr. Then again, that's part of the culture they've got.

Without actually knowing the other prisoner, it's impossible to accurately guess which they'd choose. Silence is therefore a 50/50 between a two year sentence and ten, while betraying them is a 50/50 between five years and freedom...

Betray seems to be the logical choice.

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Betray is always the logical choice when you can't influence their decision. If you betray and they don't, it's instant freedom vs. 2 years; if they betray and you don't, it's 10 years vs. 5. But, of course, they have the exact same incentives…

Of course, the fact that we're collectively deciding the other prisoner's action changes that calculus. If you're the deciding vote, betray is 5 years vs. 2. But if you didn't tip the scale one way or the other, then that doesn't really matter, does it?

 

[Fitsdreia]

The twist here is that your vote is your choice, but your buddy's is chosen by poll. If Stay Silent wins and you voted Betray, you get off without a hitch; if you voted Stay Silent you get two. But if Betray wins, you get five years if you voted Betray, ten if you voted Stay Silent.

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Well i saw this way too late, and the poll completely fucked up my plan XD

Of course, the fact that we're collectively deciding the other prisoner's action changes that calculus. If you're the deciding vote, betray is 5 years vs. 2. But if you didn't tip the scale one way or the other, then that doesn't really matter, does it?

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My logic was different, i wouldn't go to jail because i won't do anything that would send me there, but if i were to go, then lets go the other extreme and start a criminal empire, then the calculus change, i can't modify the behaviour of the other prisoner, but assuming i trust them to do the logical, i would stay silent, so that they may betray me and be free, resulting in one of us managing the underworld empire from outside and the other recruiting inside, the worst case scenario is that no one of us ends with 0 jail time, because thats means we have time unconnected to the empire, which means it will be no longer ours when we come out, so thats that. Of course this change if i were the leader, in that case i would betray and hope they were loyal so i can go back to the empire and then assign them the mission of recruiting people.

But that was my thought process, what do you think?