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The Joker effect: cooperation driven by destructive agents — mentioned by pella

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:21:06 GMT

direct pdf link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.3257v1.pdf original publication: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519311...

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The Joker effect: cooperation driven by destructive agents — mentioned by pella

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:10:24 GMT

>Swartz claimed that the Joker is actually “homo economicus, a supremely rational actor ... arXiv:1103.3257: The Joker effect: cooperation driven by destructive agents (2011) https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3257 Keywords: public goods, cooperation, destructive agents, cycles Abstract: "Understanding the emergence of cooperation is a central issue in evolutionary game theory. The hardest setup for the attainment of cooperation in a population of individuals is the Public Goods game in which cooperative agents generate a common good at their own expenses, while defectors "free-ride" this good.…

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The Joker effect: cooperation driven by destructive agents — mentioned by harveywi

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:04:36 GMT

To add to the list of the multilayered problem: - Sabotage and subversion. (It is easy to forget to add this one to the list...but there is probably quite a bit of this going on at various levels). - Lack of "Jokers" or lack of the right kinds of them...? [1] [2]. The Jokers bit is interesting. To quote [2], "Jokers are crazy, sadistic bastards who care nothing about the group benefit (so they don't consume it), but they do care about destroying things. They usually do so while cackling and making bad puns. They closely resemble Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, or Heath Ledger (depending on the…

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The Joker effect: cooperation driven by destructive agents — mentioned by Maro

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:09:10 GMT

The actual paper is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3257

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