If you have to come back and play this game tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, then there is only one sensible strategy: cooperate. Accept the lesser reward, and get it tomorrow. Because there’s no reason to trust a betrayer when they come back for another round of the game. But I’m still left with another question: what does it do? What is society even for?

Commentary, Personal, Political, Written by: CameronCameron SummersMarch 25, 2020Covid-19, The Prisoner's Dilemma, Doctor Strangelove, memes, Albert Camus, Cannibal Metaphysics, personhood, Metaphors, PoliticsComment