Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Let's play the Voting Game!

["Glotmorf" <dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31 Jan 2004 at 14:07, Rob Speer wrote:

> In fact, you can't really make a true prisoner's dilemma for the entire
> Nomic, because winning the Nomic is zero-sum, even though the scores
> aren't. If you lose 50 points but so does everyone else, you haven't
> really lost anything. (The same goes for gaining points, unless you
> happen to have 9xx points, but prisoners' dilemmas are usually phrased
> in terms of losing rather than winning.)

Winning the Nomic isn't zero-sum either, since wins are 
essentially just another incrementable stat.

						Glotmorf

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