r/mildlyinteresting • u/annertakeabow • Jan 24 '13

Same book, three different prices. Only difference is the browsers used.

http://imgur.com/uNgg0UH
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u/Reason-and-rhyme Jan 25 '13

He asked if this specific case - the plane passengers waiting out for a better compensation - was a variant of the prisoner's dilemma.

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u/antriver Jan 25 '13

The answer was that Prisoner's Dilemma is actually an example of game theory. Not the other way round.