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

To Live and Die by Metaphor

Crafting new metaphors is a difficult task: very few of us try to do it regularly, and oftentimes, when we do, it is supposed to apply to a particular situation that will arise once and then never again – and so our metaphors are purpose-made for one thing and one thing only, and it is only an accident when it becomes more generally applied.

Analysis, Written by: CameronCameron SummersSeptember 23, 2019Metaphors, Rene Descartes, Blade Runner, Karl Marx, AJJ, Neuromancer, William GibsonComment