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Call for a moratorium on the use of the term “prisoner’s dilemma”

Palko writes:

I’m not sure what the best way to get the ball rolling here would be (perhaps a kickstarter?) but we need to have a strictly enforced rule that no journalist or pundit is allowed to mention the prisoner’s dilemma for the next five or ten years, however long it takes to learn to use it properly and, more importantly, discover that game theory consists of more than that one concept.

He actually made that suggestion back in 2016, but it remains relevant.

While we’re at it, let’s also institute a moratorium on articles with the scientist-as-hero theme.

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