#250: The Art of Strategy
The Art of Manliness
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Is There a Multi-Person Version of Prisoner's Lema?
The tragedy of the commons is a multi-person version of this. And that's why we need to actually do it via treaties and alliances as opposed to counting on people acting in their own self-interest. The advantage that we have here is that we can actually talk to each other and monitor what the other side is doing. So if we had to make these decisions in isolation and not do treaties, then we'd find ourselves in the multi- person version of Prisoner's Lema - which would be disastrous.
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