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Dr. Steven Pinker: Psychologist, psycholinguist and author

Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

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The Prisoner's Dilemma in a Public Goods Game

Game theory is one of the conceptual tools that i think every educated person should master. In a public goods game, everyone has an incentive to pull out the maximum number of fish. But if all the fishers do it, then the fishery collapses,. et cetera, eetera, etceera. So hat it's a general dilemma of social life. And we're facing it now above all, in carbononitions - both within a society and even more acutely among countries on the planet. If each country would be off its economic growth going with captured energy,  the whole planet ends up worse off.

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