How to outsmart the Prisoner’s Dilemma - Lucas Husted
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Published 2020-08-27
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Two perfectly rational gingerbread men, Crispy and Chewy, are out strolling when they’re caught by a fox. Instead of simply eating them, he decides to put their friendship to the test with a cruel dilemma. He’ll ask each gingerbread man whether he’d opt to Spare or Sacrifice the other. What should they choose? Lucas Husted dives into the classic game theory scenario: the Prisoner's Dilemma.
Lesson by Lucas Husted, directed by Ivana Bošnjack and Thomas Johnson.
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All Comments (21)
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"Two perfectly rational gingerbread men" As gingerbread men usually are
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Why isn’t that wizard minding his own business? Typical wizard.
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"Infinite triple limb consumption" is not a phrase I had expected to ever hear in my life, but I am not disappointed
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if the gingerbread men were actually smart they would have just offered to let the fox eat their gingerbread house
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Plot Twist : The Fox Was Disguised As The Wizard, To Eat them Everyday!
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alternate ending: the fox dies because he ate too much sugar.
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"Their eternity may be very crumby but so long as they go out on a limb their lives will never be half baked." well done guys. Got three puns in at the final few seconds of the video. Bravo
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The flaw in the rationality is that while crispy looses nothing of his own, he does lose something very valuable: a friend
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Moral of the story: Don’t look happy when you encounter a fox.
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“The weather today is partly suspicious, with chances of betrayal.” wow who hurt you
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I like stuff like this because its a convincing argument you can make to even a sociopath that morality is a logical thing.
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At that point I'd just say "well, if he's going to eat one or part of us anyway. New plan: Kill the fox or die trying." I'd say YOLO, but it wouldn't apply here.
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When you realise that the wizard is just trying to feed his pet fox. Being a freelance wizard is a low income job after all.
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Of course the gingerbread people are perfectly rational, everyone in the Ted Ed universe is
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Fox: So have you decided? Fox: Who will be sacrificed and who will be spared? Chewy & Crispy: (in unison) Yes we have decided to sacrifice the WIZARD!!!
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“ Fox, we have come to bargain ...” “ You have come to have your limbs eaten “
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God, the animation is phenomenal, shout out to the animators : Ivana bosnjak and Thomas Johnson
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“Seeing how happy they are, he decides that instead of simply eating them...” Aww. How kind of him — “... he will subject them to a game of mental anguish as well as physical torture.” What the — ?
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Oh, so THAT'S how you outsmart the Prisoners' Dilemma... by just changing the premise so it's literally not the Prisoners' Dilemma anymore.
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Mutually Assured Destruction also breaks the rules by changing the variables from how many limbs remain to "survive" or "die," with any scenario where you die being absolutely undesirable, and thus guaranteeing neither side will betray the other.
