The Platinum Rule

From an analysis of the 3-million choices made in the second Prisoner's Dilemma competition, four features of the winning strategy TIT FOR TAT emerged:

1. Never be the first to defect

2. Retaliate only after your partner has defected

3. Be prepared to forgive after carrying out just one act of retaliation

4. Adopt this strategy only if the probability of meeting the same player again exceeds 2/3.

Crisis Management

• Do no harm

• Capability - not intention

• Improve the odds of success

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Thieves Can Be Helpful

For about 3 years I tolerated a TV that only had 2 colors - orange and black.

I faced a challenge disposing of it when I finally bought a new one. Temporarily without a car, I faced shlepping the old set 3 blocks to the dumpster.

Flash of inspiration! I stuck a big red bow and fake Xmas card on it and left it in the parking lot of my apartment complex. When I returned home it was gone.