What is the Prisoners Dilemma?
Here’s a description “from w9a”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma bq. In game theory, the prisoner’s dilemma is a type of non-zero-sum game in which two players can “cooperate” with or “betray” the other player. In this game, as in all game theory, the only concern of each individual player (“prisoner”) is maximizing their own payoff, without any concern for the other player’s payoff per se. In the classic form of this game, Cooperating is strictly dominated by defecting (i.e., betraying one’s partner), so that the only possible equilibrium for the game is for all players to defect. In simpler terms, no matter what the other player does, one player will always gain a greater payoff by playing defect. Since in any situation playing defect is more beneficial than cooperating, all rational players will play defect. How does it apply to Digg? I have long thought about a way to game [[digg]] wherein minority voting blocs would approximate the appearance of majority appeal fo
