The Multipolar Trap

The idea of multipolar traps is that there's a first attractor, which is like, I'm going to do what's right for me selfishly. But then if I do that, it undermines the system upon which the game relies. And you know, the example that they use in meditations on Moloch was that say you have a pond in which there's five fishermen that are all fishing and each person gets 100 fish per year. The question is how do we create currency systems where these people can coordinate instead of defect against each other?

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