The "prisoner's dilemma" is one of the most famous ideas in game theory. For decades, this game has been used to explain why selfishness often beats cooperation. In the prisoner's dilemma, two players ...

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The dilemma arises when an innocent person is wrongly convicted of a crime, legal systems require the individual to admit ...

Imagine this: You and an acquaintance, let's call him Patrick, have the untoward idea of robbing a bank during broad daylight. To your chagrin, it doesn't work out and you both end up downtown. The ...

A new study uses neural networks to prove that memory and individual recognition allow cooperation to defeat selfishness in the prisoner's dilemma.

A t this point, it’s no secret that Columbia, Johns Hopkins, the University of Pennsylvania, and other top American research-intensive institutions are under attack, facing punishing forces to bring ...

My parents have just celebrated their 59th anniversary. Many years ago I asked them (out of earshot of each other) what made their relationship work so well. Without a moment's hesitation my mother ...