William Poundstone wrote a book on it, which discussed the most famous treatment of it, the Flood-Dresher experiment.
William Poundstone wrote a book on it, which discussed the most famous treatment of it, the Flood-Dresher experiment. Robert Axelrod considered it in a so-called tournament that was "won" by Anatol Rapoport. It can be extended to n-persons, as in the tragedy of the commons, and Tit-for-Tat is a highly successful solution to it. It's similar to the so-called stag hunt, and turns on a deficient equilibrium point. Classically referring to a situation in which each of two people have the choice to cooperate or defect but paradoxically tend to defect even though mutual cooperation is more beneficial, FTP, name this game theory dilemma named after people who are interrogated when they are put in jail.
William Poundstone wrote a book on it, which discussed the most famous treatment of it, the Flood-Dresher experiment.
{Prisoner’s} Dilemma (or paradox, prompt on “game theory” or symmetric game, etc.)