Consider the game known as the Prisoner\'s Dilemma. What\'s the dilemma? By both
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Question
Consider the game known as the Prisoner's Dilemma. What's the dilemma?
By both confessing, both get to the noncooperative solution and both serve significant time in prison.
As a group, they are better off cooperating by not confessing, but each player has an incentive to be first to confess in a double cross.
By both not confessing, both get to the cooperative solution and minimize time in prison.
The problem is that the spies should never have been caught; they should move to Rio.
a.By both confessing, both get to the noncooperative solution and both serve significant time in prison.
b.As a group, they are better off cooperating by not confessing, but each player has an incentive to be first to confess in a double cross.
c.By both not confessing, both get to the cooperative solution and minimize time in prison.
d.The problem is that the spies should never have been caught; they should move to Rio.
Explanation / Answer
The dilemma in the prison dilemma is that it is a unpleasant choice in which two prisoners make unideal choice while acting according to their own self interest.
It means dilemma when as a group, they are better off cooperating by not confessing, but each player has an incentive to be first to confess in a double cross.
This is because by trying to cheat to their counterpart, both take unideal choice and spent more time in prison.
Hence b is the correct answer.