How to outsmart the Prisoner’s Dilemma - Lucas Husted

Or they just stay inside for the day...

The animators are perfectly rational

The lesson we learned today? Be the fox!

"Is that enough to get these poor sentient baked goods to agree to cooperate?" is the title of my forthcoming book.

Why are they eating themselves? 😭

The gingerbreadmen are so cute!!! 😊




WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BOYS???

another option - stop taking that path over and over and maybe take the one that doesn’t have a fox come across it every time

The problem is, when you IRL you only get to sacrifice once. Hence "sacrifice for eternity" is meaningless.

"I don't wanna live in a hole anymore it makes me feel poor" 🦊

To think a wizard with the power to replay time over and over again watched two poor cookies make a desperate decision on the worst day of their lives and said, "I could watch this forever."

There's no way to outsmart prisoner's dilemma. It is called a dilemma for a reason. The point is that there are no definitive conclusion to it. While the infinite prisoner's dilemma can't be called that at all.

I clicked because the fox in the thumbnail was staring into my soul.

step 1: choose sacrifice.
step 2: show the fox you have green eyes.
step 3: profit

.

The only problem of here is that the noninfinite prisoner's dilemma, you're assuming that they're not friends, just random people that you know will betray you. Crispy and Chewy both care about each other, and they trust each other.

Day 1 of rewatching this until I understand

why didn't the wizard punish the wolf??

Wouldn't a perfectly rational gingerbread man consider the possibility of coming out with 3 limbs better than 1 limb and, knowing that the other is also perfectly rational, realise that if they both spare, they both have a better outcome then both sacrificing?

It’s important to ask, “What then?” Few do, especially in policy decisions.

No one got outsmarted

i simply choose spare. i either die and dont suffer from not having 3 limbs all of a sudden or just lose one limb and yipee.

All milo protein bar.

Lmao I keep being so scared of the fox

I came for the cute animations, i left because maths hard

Well, one of ‘em ‘s got green eyes

If only Winston Duarte had watched this video, many people wouldn't have had to die.

I hate this video

Unless they like the other person

The funny thing is the fox is also caught in this infinite loop

Now imagine if the gingerbread mans haed jobs. They would need more than 1 limb to do them, and in a community of gingerbread man, not just their job, but the other one's job is important as well. So, the best option to ensure their survival is to both spare each other. And that is why we humans evolved morality, because in a small village, you need all the help you can get, and helping someone even if you may lose something from it, is still better than having less people in the community. And this only lost value recently because there are so many of us on the planet

U choose each other and help each other walk forever basically choose ur friendship

In my opinion, this isnt about solving it its about leaving with the most desirable outcome for you. Sure that could be to have the most limbs, but for me i would want to leave with my moralles, so id spare.

i’d choose spare though

They look so happy

No hate but the fox looks absolutely horrifying 😭😭

What a demented Fox

only that

Sacrifice the other because if you get a limb eaten you're most likely going to bleed out and die anyway. So your options are actually just die or possibly not die.

and than life comes in and you realize that people are affected by circumstances

My ultimate objective is to give the aggressor the least pleasure.

That wizard must have been in cahoots with the fox. Infinite food supply for the fox just to teach them a lesson? No way

The original setup overlooked something: would it be completely irrational to orefer death to living with only one limb, plus the guilt of sacreficing your friend? Personally id choose to spare my friend. That way i either die or i loose only one limb. Loosing 3 honestly sounds worse

At first,I thought one of the gingermen was Crusty.

They just couldn't help but add those Dad jokes at the end.

I am just wondering why at the gingerbread house, they are eating themselves?

Wait. If they're both just as rational as each other, wouldn't that mean that in short term, they choose the same thing? If so, it would be optimal to Spare since that would be the better of the 2 where they do the same thing (Spare, Spare vs Sacrifice, Sacrifice)