An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems by Michael Wooldridge

Author:Michael Wooldridge [Wooldridge, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

There is some strength to this argument: we do not (or at least, most of us do not) constantly deliberate about how to maximize our welfare without any consideration for the welfare of our peers. Similarly, in many scenarios, we would be happy to trust our peers to recognize the value of a cooperative outcome without even mentioning it to them, being no more than mildly annoyed if we get the ‘sucker's pay-off’.

There are several counter responses to this. First, it is pointed out that many real-world examples of spontaneous cooperative behaviour are not really the prisoner's dilemma. Frequently, there is some built-in mechanism that makes it in the interests of participants to cooperate. For example, consider the problem of giving up your seat on the bus. We will frequently give up our seat on the bus to an older person, a mother with children, etc., apparently at some discomfort (i.e. loss of utility) to ourselves. But it could be argued that in such scenarios, society has ways of punishing non-cooperative behaviour: suffering the hard and unforgiving stares of fellow passengers when we do not give up our seat, or worse, being publicly accused of being uncouth!

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