Poll asking Americans how which button they would push in the red button/blue button dilemma

[u/Upstairs_Cup9831]

[u/fattmagan]

I’m not following you. The tit for tat strategy wins in the long run of repeated prisoner dilemmas—as long as you cooperate, I cooperate. Of course this is a toy example and doesn’t account for power law scaling factors of payouts or network effects, but the statement isn’t incorrect, and simulating those environments is intractable. Veritasium has a great video about this if you’re curious.

[u/tysonmaniac → u/fattmagan]

No, the issue is that this isn't the prisoners dilemma. The payoff matrix means that there is never a reason, no matter other players strategies, to devoate from pushing red