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- Subject: Re: Inoculation aggro
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.072854.437@news.wesleyan.edu>
- From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
- Date: 13 Nov 92 07:28:54 EDT
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- In <2199@snap> paj@uk.co.gec-mrc writes:
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- > A more interesting problem is as follows:
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- [interesting problem about maximizing one's outcome given certain
- probabilities]
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- <*heh,heh*> This was about the best version of the game-theoretic puzzle, known
- to philosophers as the Prisoners' Dilemma, as I've ever seen! I think I'll use
- it in for my intro ethics classes...
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- BTW, the usual point of such examples is exactly to point out the differences
- in strategies when one takes one's desired outcome to be "maximizing OUR
- chances for survival" rather than "maximizing MY chances for survival".
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- Interesting, huh?
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- Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
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