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Have you read about the iterative prisoner's dilemma?

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Of course, but that has nothing to do with this because life is not an iterated game.

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since you're the one making an extravagant point here, care to provide an explanation?

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What I believe he's trying to say is: take the Prisoner's Dilemma. We both confess because it's our dominant strategy, and we both end up in prison for life. Because you only get one chance at life, we aren't able to go back in time and cooperate with one another to both not-confess and reach a mutually beneficial outcome.

Ergo, life is not iterative. You only get to play once.