The Prisoner's Dilemma

The prisoner's dilemma is a model for thinking about lots of situations that occur in real life, where you and some one else have basically two decisions. Are you going to play nicely with each other? Are weu going to sort of co operate? The scenario that is always talked about is you and your friend are both being held by the police, accused of having committed a crime. Both players think that wayand why it's considered a dilemma is that if we would both just co operate with each other, it would be good for both of us. And i found when he ran these experiments very illuminating in this tournaments of all these programmes playing against each other. That what he found was that