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47. Robert Axelrod on Why Being Nice, Forgiving, and Provokable are the Best Strategies for Life

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Prisoner's Dilemma and Game Theory

"This is not a zero sume game. We all tend to fall into zero sume thinking whenever there's any kind of rivalry or anything that looks like competition, because zero some thinking is the easiest way to do it," he says. "The prisoner's dilemma is really one of those rare areas of social science which spans economics, evolutionary biology, political science, math."

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