![]() ![]() ![]() If one cooperates and the other defects, the defector gets a higher reward and the cooperator receives a penalty. If you both cooperate, you both get rewarded. The Prisoner's Dilemma is a scenario in which two individuals each make (in secret) a decision to cooperate with the other individual or to "defect" instead. (2) Chapter 29 is a fascinating discussion of "Prisoner's Dilemma Computer Tournaments". I thought this story was hilarious in a Monty-Pythonesque sort of way, but your mileage may vary. ![]() (1) On pages 37-41, at the end of a chapter on self-referential sentences (i.e., sentences that refer to themselves), Hofstadter presents a short story by David Moser entitled "This is the Title of This Story, Which is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself" that is made up of self-referential sentences. (The name of this book and of Hofstadter's column is an anagram of the name of Gardner's column.) In my opinion, a few of the highlights of this book are: This is a collection of the columns Douglas Hofstadter wrote for Scientific American when he took over Martin Gardner's regular "Mathematical Games" column. ![]()
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