[KO] > altruistic behaviour can be the most selfish policy...if a friend becomes too > altruistic, too giving, you may advise them to be a little more selfish.
This is not an example of "altruistic behaviour being the most selfish policy", but rather an example of altruistic behaviour not being selfish enough. [KO] > The point > of the Prisoner's Dilemma is that we should attract the right partners and > leave the selfish rationalists to their fate. This seems backwards. The point of the Prisoner's Dilemma is that: if I am better off doing A rather than not-A, when someone else does B & I am better off doing A rather than not-A, when someone else does not-B, it does not follow that I am better off doing A than not-A. So the point of the Prisoner's Dilemma is to refine our notion of what it is to be rational. Craig Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
