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To: Selectric II who wrote (1786)	9/29/2001 11:57:37 AM
From: Jill	Respond to of 281500

OT but not really: The best policy is Tit for Tat. That means, you start out by cooperating but if the other "defects" or in other words, cheats, betrays, attacks, you do the same back one time, and then are ready to cooperate again. There is a game called "The Prisoner's Dilemma" that is a classic in sociology, and this strategy proved the most successful of ANY strategy (and the simplest) when tested in thousands upon thousands of successive "games" on computer. pscs.umich.edu pscs.umich.edu The author, Dr. Robert Axelrod, won a MacArthur genius grant. He says, "My original interest in game theory arose from a concern with international politics and especially the risk of nuclear war. The iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game seemed to me to capture the essence of the tension between doing what is good for the individual (a selfish defection) and what is good for everyone (a cooperative choice). Therefore I was intrigued by the many strategies that had been proposed to play this game effectively."