From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 16:39:07 MDT
Christian writes
> I don't know whether this has been mentioned before:
> http://www.magnolia.net/~leonf/sd/sd.html
>
> It summarizes some of the issues that keep appearing again and again
> in the political/ethical discussions here and has lots of pointers
> to further reading. Nothing new there, but a convenient summary
> and entry point.
Yes, you're right on both counts. It's pretty well written,
but also so far as I saw contains pretty old results. The
prisoner's dilemma has been creatively and perceptively applied
to social situations since the 1950's, and then made a big
splash with the publication of Axelrod's book in the early
eighties. ("The Evolution of Cooperation" by Robert Axelrod.)
The examples
http://www.magnolia.net/~leonf/sd/sd-exam.html
are good, but also were probably mostly in the Axelrod book.
Lee
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