The Prisoner’s Dilemma, is a quintessential thought experiment, taught to any Social Science student as a classic example in an introductory Game Theory class. It was originally hypothesized by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher in 1950, and was formalized mathematically, by Albert Tucker in the same year. The game proceeds as follows: Two partners in crime are caught and are imprisoned in separate cells, with no means of communicating with the other. The police do not have enough evidence to …
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