How to Avoid Prisoner's Dilemma

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The idea of a prisoner's dilemma is that two parties are strictly better off defecting on each other. But the scenario where they both affect on each other is actually not a good scenario. And it would be better if they somehow could both pre commit to cooperating. So even though each of them has a sense of the defect regardless of what the other one does, they'd actually be better to cooperate.

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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