Re: The Nash Equilibrium and the traveller\'s dilemma
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GMontag,
Back to what you said about the prisoner's dilemma
Assume that both players in the game are perfectly rational. Also assume that one player goes first, and the response (coop/defect) is wrtitten down on a piece of paper.
That paper is brought into the other person's room, but they are not allowed to look at it.
It is your belief that, regardless of what the second player chooses, it was ALWAYS be the same as what is on the paper, yes?
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If you state that as one of the premises of the problem, as was done in this problem, then yes. It's not the rationality that does it, it's the knowledge of the other player's rationality, et al that is the condition for superrationality.
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