How to outsmart the Prisoner’s Dilemma

[sun rise]

I followed the link from here How to Solve the Prisoner's Dilemma: A Gloriously Animated Explanation of the Classic Game-Theory Problem | Open Culture to the neat video that explains the classic "prisoners dilemma" game theory situation

Such is the situation animated in gloriously woolly stop-motion by Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson in the TED-Ed video at the top of the post, which replaces the prisoners with “sentient baked goods,” the jailer with a hungry woodland predator, and years of imprisonment with bitten-off arms and legs. After explaining the prisoner’s dilemma in a whimsical manner, it presents one proposed solution: the “infinite prisoner’s dilemma,” in which the participants decide not just once but over and over again. Such a setup would allow them to “use their future decisions as bargaining chips for the present one,” and eventually (depending upon how heavily they value future outcomes in the present) to settle upon repeating the outcome that would let both of them walk free — as free as they can walk on one gingerbread leg, at any rate.

 

[vulcanlogician]

That was a cool spin on the prisoner's dilemma. Vsauce2 covered the topic recently in regards to criminal justice:

 

[Heyo]

I followed the link from here How to Solve the Prisoner's Dilemma: A Gloriously Animated Explanation of the Classic Game-Theory Problem | Open Culture to the neat video that explains the classic "prisoners dilemma" game theory situation

Such is the situation animated in gloriously woolly stop-motion by Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson in the TED-Ed video at the top of the post, which replaces the prisoners with “sentient baked goods,” the jailer with a hungry woodland predator, and years of imprisonment with bitten-off arms and legs. After explaining the prisoner’s dilemma in a whimsical manner, it presents one proposed solution: the “infinite prisoner’s dilemma,” in which the participants decide not just once but over and over again. Such a setup would allow them to “use their future decisions as bargaining chips for the present one,” and eventually (depending upon how heavily they value future outcomes in the present) to settle upon repeating the outcome that would let both of them walk free — as free as they can walk on one gingerbread leg, at any rate.

I have solved the Prisoner's Dilemma without referring to the Infinite Prisoners Dilemma.

It is all a question of perspective. The game forces us to see our colleague in crime as the opponent in the game. If we reject that notion and see us as a team and the police as the opponent, we get a completely different matrix.
Moral of the story: don't let your enemy tell you who your enemy is.