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Old 01-17-2009, 08:34 PM  
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Originally Posted by gideongallery View Post
and if all the prisoners keep quiet they get off scott free

the problem is the nash equilibrium works against that and results in a shift to everyone confessing.

You really think a fight against the nash equilibrium is going to work, even though it as never worked once yet.

Good luck
The Nash equilibrium has holes in it and recent work by game theorists are starting to prove that.

A simple game called the Travelers Dilema by Kaushik Basu shows that.

A Nash equilibrium is not gospel and it is way overused in systems where it really has no application.
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