re: #174 Hecuba’s daughter

Occasionally, an organization sets up a competition for contestants to submit programs that play the Prisoner’s Dilemma repeatedly against other programs. Again this is a game where morality is irrelevant. For example, if a program adheres to a principle of always cooperating and never striking back, the correct process of the other program is to betray the first program every time; i.e. the game teaches that if the other side cannot fight back, it’s ok to treat them like trash.

It’s really designed for a situation of parties with equal power and identical ethics.

Seems like the GOP learned that lesson pretty well.