{"id":11546,"date":"2012-06-12T11:48:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T16:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11546"},"modified":"2012-06-12T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:04:19","slug":"the-eric-clapton-bob-marley-answer-to-the-prisoners-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/12\/the-eric-clapton-bob-marley-answer-to-the-prisoners-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eric Clapton \/ Bob Marley Answer to the Prisoner&#8217;s Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prisoner%27s_Dilemma\" target=\"_blank\">The Prisoners&#8217; Dilemma<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two men are arrested, but the police do not possess enough information for a conviction. Following the separation of the two men, the police offer both a similar deal\u2014if one testifies against his partner (defects\/betrays), and the other remains silent (cooperates\/assists), the betrayer goes free and the cooperator receives the full one-year sentence. If both remain silent, both are sentenced to only one month in jail for a minor charge. If each &#8216;rats out&#8217; the other, each receives a three-month sentence. Each prisoner must choose either to betray or remain silent; the decision of each is kept quiet. What should they do?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their solution after the fold.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tRgcwT9X2J8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tRgcwT9X2J8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NEVboGko_xk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NEVboGko_xk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>That is, both confess and receive the middle sentences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prisoners&#8217; Dilemma: Two men are arrested, but the police do not possess enough information for a conviction. Following the separation of the two men, the police offer both a similar deal\u2014if one testifies against his partner (defects\/betrays), and the other remains silent (cooperates\/assists), the betrayer goes free and the cooperator receives the full one-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11549,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546\/revisions\/11549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}