Term
prisoner's dilemma
A game from game theory: both players gain by cooperating, but each one alone wins more by cheating the other.
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, Kevin Dutton
Explained in
- The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, Kevin Dutton
- Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Ken Binmore
A game in which each player does better not to cooperate, whatever the other does, although together they would win more.
- The Art of Strategy, Avinash Dixit, Barry Nalebuff
A classic problem of game theory: each participant on their own does better by acting selfishly, although both would do better if they cooperated.
- The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
A problem from game theory: each of two players does better by betraying, but if both betray, both end up worse off than if they had cooperated.
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
A classic case from game theory: two people each choose what is best for themselves and together end up worse off than they could have been.