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[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Bastien <bastienguerry at googlemail.com> wrote:
> "Bobby Powers" <bobbypowers at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> That is, make it a game that teaches collaboration at the community,
>> village and societal level is usually the best option.  Bonus points
>> for making it behave that way AND making it believable :)

No, let there be many versions, and let the students find out which
rule sets make cooperation work better. Then they can consider
changing the actual rules and laws of society to work better on a base
of experimental evidence.

> So everyone here wants game practice to contradict game theory?  :)

Anybody who doesn't get the joke here should read Axelrod, The
Evolution of Cooperation. There is at least a second level to game
theory.

All you have to do is to program competition and collaboration in
accordance with the standard Prisoner's Dilemma rules. Two cooperators
can beat two completely selfish non-cooperators in just a few rounds.
The more players and the more rounds, the more profitable cooperation
is. (Note that real global markets do not work in accordance with
Prisoner's Dilemma rules. The rich cheat through government
corruption.)

The two greatest historical examples were the declaration of Freedom
of Conscience and of Trade by the Netherlands during the Eighty Years
War against Spanish Imperial religous and economic insanity; and the
experience of the English and American Quakers after they decided that
God demanded that they be honest no matter the cost. Nobody could
figure out in either case why they were prospering, not even they
themselves. But the Quaker influence in business was so strong that to
this day salesmen and CEOs who want to be believable put on suits of
Quaker grey, without any idea why. The greatest modern example is the
Sarvodaya Movement in Sri Lanka, which has broken caste distinctions
and made a serious dent in national poverty by bringing an integrated
development program based in cooperation to more than half of the
villages in Sri Lanka.
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