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The prisoner's dilemma is a game theory thought experiment involving two rational agents, each of whom can either cooperate for mutual benefit or betray their partner ("defect") for individual gain. The dilemma arises from the fact that while defecting is rational for each agent, cooperation yields a higher payoff for each.
The cooperative nature of the Berge equilibrium therefore avoids the mutual defection problem that has made the prisoner's dilemma a notorious example of the potential for Nash equilibrium reasoning to produce a mutually suboptimal result. [8]
Both players defecting (mutual defection (MD)) results in lower payoffs to each player than both player cooperating (mutual cooperation (MC)). So, while going from the stable equilibrium of MD to MC would be a Pareto improvement, in single-shot Prisoner's dilemma rational economic players fail to achieve the efficiency of mutual cooperation.
By choosing to defect, players protect themselves from exploitation and retain the option to exploit a trusting opponent. Because this is the case for both players, mutual defection is the only Nash equilibrium of the game. However, this is a deficient equilibrium (since mutual cooperation results in a better payoff for both players). [2]
The Prisoner's Dilemma game is another well-known example of a non-cooperative game. The game involves two players, or defendants, who are kept in separate rooms and thus are unable to communicate. The game involves two players, or defendants, who are kept in separate rooms and thus are unable to communicate.
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In iterated prisoner's dilemma strategy competitions, grim trigger performs poorly even without noise, and adding signal errors makes it even worse. Its ability to threaten permanent defection gives it a theoretically effective way to sustain trust, but because of its unforgiving nature and the inability to communicate this threat in advance ...
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