Day 894
World peace through superior firepower
The predicament where what everyone does that's rational for them leaves everyone worse off when everyone does it. There are lots of situations in which tragedies of the commons confront us.
Should I duck in to the Crime, Cocktails & Coffee lounge on Sunday evening for some quick gulps of Prosecco or not?
A deterministic pure strategy is guaranteed to fail because it suggests the dive will be empty, everyone will go, and thus it will be crowded. On the other hand, if everyone in the neighbourhood asks themselves the same question, there exists the possibility no one will go.