1)Always commit crimes alone. 2)Always keep your mouth shut. 3)Profit!

The best option is called "Give me my lawyer" which then will get you off because there is no actual proof.

I did this game in a museum once. It was snitch or silent. I was playing with my dad and I would always snitch because I was a little selfish kid. Dad would always stay silent. I told him "Dad you have to try to get out" he would say "You're my daughter, I would never snitch on you" I now am so touched by that now but back then I said "just pretend I'm not"

The survey may have had more people cooperating because they had nothing to lose. They could just pick to cooperate because it’s the nice thing to do and there is no gain nor loss. If you brought money in (like 10$ or 5$) then I think the answers would be different since they have something to lose or gain. Edit: I just realized something, if you had a HIGHER amount of money such as a $1000 then the results would also change drastically.

Jessie and James were finally caught after trying to steal Pikachu so many times.

"This situation is pretty made-up, but has some real-world analogs... there's just 100 people in society, and they all smoke."

In Virtue's Last Reward : Ally and Betray In The Prisoner's dilemma : Cooperate and Defect A, B, C, D... That's what I call perfection.

5:27 creeped me out to the highest extent possible.

There's no extra option called 'pleading the fifth'?

This video is a great way to teach a punnet square

This was also shown in something called "The Evolution of Trust" by Nicky Case.

Sad the amount of people missing the point and arguing semantics and non-sensical additonal options in the prisoner dilemma, people really need to use their brain and pay attention to what this video is actually about. It has nothing to do with the law or what to actually do in this situation.

Lawyers exist

PUNNETT SQUARE finally it has a use other than figuring out genes

Dio: *Slams Betray Button*

The prisoner’s dilemma is something I discovered through the game Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward. I loved how that game twisted this already pretty messed up system into something that was horrifying to try and get through.

If they are Black, they are both going to jail for 5 years.

they put a picture of a baby on cigarette advertising?!

Always defect if your opponent's name is Dio... BETRAY

The answer? Sue the police for corruption!

In England it's illegal to advertise tobacco products. So the companies end up benefitting from it.

Not entirely sure why this video was suggested to me, but I'm glad it was! Awesome stuff!

This reminds me of “The evolution of trust”

I was scared half to death when their faces turned into creepy pixel smiles

"they were supposed to be cute" lol that's what my mom said

Best option: Shut up and get a lawyer. Spend no time in prison

genius artistic visualisation. I like the simplicity and clarity of your illustration.

Protip: The true lesson of this situation is that, no matter what, talking to the police is a bad idea. Be smart. It doesn't matter how innocent you are. Lawyer up.

The game show Golden Balls (UK) uses this in the final part of the show where the two remaining contestants can either choose split the money or steal it, if one steals the other splits stealer gets all but if both steal no one gets anything, however they are allowed to talk so it is more about trusting the other person to do the right thing and not be greedy.

I think the real dilemma here is why their faces don't connect with their body

This video made understanding the Prisoner’s Dilemma very easy to understand - thank you for your time spent creating and publishing this great content! 😊

Great application/ example at 2:00 The advertising made it clearer why this is important.

Two rival nations wanting to reduce their number of nukes to please their citizens. Another example.

5:29 What did i just witness

I remember this! There's this place called The Explortorium in SF that has these two rooms where you do this same exact thing.

That experiment was interesting for the fact so many people cooperated...I'd like to see a meta study done on this experiment by running it on multiple sessions with the only variable being the stakes on which the point system depends on higher stakes and pressure on the person the change in the cooperation and defection rate should be interesting to observe.

If you can't trust your partner to do the option that is best for you both of you then you need a new partner.

Dat last scene tho, scared the bleach out of me

This reminds me of an episode I believe was called prisoners dilemma on a show called white collar. The good guys managed to make the bad guys think that the other was betraying them

Phi taught me this from Zero Escape. Good thing Dio isn't here, otherwise he'd be betraying me every chance he gets. Goddamn it, Dio.

so, moral of the story, cooperation is key to success. if we all lived by the teachings of these results then there would be no war

Zero escape: virtues last reward is all about this lol

My teacher in high school did this game, she put us in random pairs and the rules were the same. But my partner betrayed me

This made an appearance in the book series, “The Mysterious Benedict Society”

I'm the type of person who would always go for cooperate, but then always be betrayed *coughzeroescapecough*

I watched it now get out of my suggestions.

Been teaching pd for many years. This is still the best video on the topic - so thank you very much!

Team Rocket finally landed in prison?

Lol, Virtue's Last Reward taught me this.

I mean if you commit a crime, what you should know about cops is that if they know shit about what you did, they wont be interrogating you. Be smart, people. Keep your mouth shut and don't ever talk to cops.

I've watched like 10 videos to understand the Nash Equilibrium and yours was the only one that did the trick...Respect!

ok but wtf are those cigarettes? "start early" "made for a woman" ah, yes children smoking and sexism

My uncle is currently in jail, I should mail him about this so he can get out of jail.....

If you own a 3DS or Vita and like this video, there's a fantastic game called Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward that's all about the Prisoner's Dilemma. A group of nine people are forced to play a game based on alliances and betrayals. It's an amazing and thought-provoking story.

The Nonary Game: Ambidex edition from Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward uses this (it even explains it in full detail at some point) so that characters can get points to get out of the complex they're in. The scores are like this: All start with 3 points (if they get 9, they are allowed to leave, but that will leave anyone who doesn't go with them trapped forever) and are either paired with someone else or go alone depending on their bracelets' color and whether it says "pair" or "solo" but the prisoner part comes like this: They are paired with the group they went with to a room (The Puzzle part of Zero Escape) and they have to choose either Ally or Betrayal. The scorings go like this: Ally/Ally: +2/+2 Ally/Betray: -2/+3 Betray/Betray: 0/0 What's interesting is that people who get to 6 points will coerce others into picking ally to betray them and escape ASAP instead of contributing into picking ally altogether since the beginning.

The Prisoner's Dilemma is also known as Split or Steal and is used as the endgame of some gameshows.

the end really spooked me

The real answer is to become John cena break through the wall and rescue ur friend and run away

This is real life thing especially in territory management aspects of sales , where in order to stop wastage of resources over hiring and marketing, companies with almost identical offerings simply demarcate territories to save resources and gain money in their respective areas

me: aw shit my favorite tv show drama thats sponsored by red strikes and smooth blue is about to start 0:03 previously on THE NO NECKS

So it's kind of like the boat thing from The Dark Knight?

I was a test subject in one of those computer-tests, facing off against another anonymous person. Twice actually. I always tried to co-operate. First time the other person came along after a few rounds, but the person in the second trial didn't :/ . I felt like shouting "Betrayal!", although ofcourse nothing was agreed beforehand.

Reddit is about to make the biggest Prisoner's Dillema experiment ever.

I watched primer's video on aggression and they briefly talked about this.

It gets especially troubling if both prisoners are innocent. If all the police want is a confession and they'll take a fake one, the odds are stacked heavily against the truth -- the advantage is always to snitch even if you're making it up, and staying honest becomes a frightening risk. I would hope that defendants are not placed in prisoner's dilemmas for that very reason, but I get the impression it does happen. The McCarthy trials hinged on this concept, and I don't think we've fully learned from that.

Okay here is another one. You and a stranger are walking down a sidewalk. You are walking behind the stranger when you see him drop a $100 bill. You can pick it up and keep it or you can pick it up and return it to him. The stranger will never know you picked up his money, it will just be gone the next time he looks for it. What would you do. Will you be honest and give it back to him, or will you keep it for yourself. You know nothing about the stranger or why he is careless with money. The money might be all he has to feed himself for a month, or he might have just stolen it from his grandmother. Would your choice be influenced by the amount of money? Would you choose differently if it was a $5 bill instead?

I discovered this channel Yesterday, loved it, subscribed and just now found out that he hastnt uploaded in a year... Fml

Reminds me of the ending to that Futurama episode where Bender and Fry both accidentally kill a guy. Then it says on the news that if one of the culprits turns the other in they'll get to walk free with a reward.

Considering the punishment for BOTH of you talking is 2 years, as opposed to 1 year if both of you stayed silent, it makes the most sense to talk. The 1 year option is there only to trick you as there are better odds if you talk. Your partner might not talk and you get out right away, or you both talk and get out in 2 years. If you chose to stay silent you're running the risk of 3 years in prison thus putting yourself on high risk. If each amount of years was a different tier it would look as follows: Tier 1 - 0 years Tier 2 - 1 year Tier 3 - 2 years Tier 4 - 3 years By choosing to talk, you combine tiers 1 and 3 to create a net year length of 2. If you were to stay silent, you're combining tiers 2 and 4, to create a net year length of 4 Statistically it makes much more sense to talk because it has the lowest possible net amount of years, AND you have a chance to get out in 0 years, as opposed to doubling your net years and playing the odds by running the chance to get out in 3.

Well Zero Escape brought me here, and now I have a deeper understanding.

I knew what I meant due to Zero escape, but your video really helped my explaining it to others. My thanks, dear friend past the wild, blue waves.

Sollution to this 1. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime 2. Snitches gets stiches. 3. ??? 4. Profit.

You guys need to play Virtue's Last Reward. That game has this dilemma ALL over it!

The cigarette adverts themselves are hilarious! Can't think they're too far from the truth as back in the day smoking was seen as healthy.

2 of my lecturers explained this but didnt mention prisioner's once, got really confused when the handbook said i needed to know the prisioner's dilemma

i needed this for the confirmation of me getting this certain part of economics and even though im dutch your explanation was spot on... thank you!:D

I know the cigarette example is supposed to be kept simple but it should be pointed out that the scenario where both companies decide to advertise is flawed. It assumes that both companies will perform equally well at the task. When you decide to compete instead of cooperate you are basing your decision on the hope that your superior skills will allow you to be superior to the competition and that you will reap more reward than if you cooperate. To me it seems that because we all have different strengths, competition will usually produce the best results where as cooperation will often lead to cartel like situations with stagnation and a worse outcome for the majority.

This reminds me of women and makeup. I consider beauty to be relative. Makeup just ups the beauty standards. Nothing is gained when all women use makeup, which most of them do. They just waste their time, but they do it to be prettier than those OTHER women. The few who refuse to waste their time with such things are "betrayed" and look worse in comparison to the others. (And don't get me started with the "natural" look and "no makeup". Yes, men would PREFER it if a woman looked that way without makeup. But it's been proven that makeup can fool men into thinking a woman is more beautiful than she is, especially when he can't notice she's wearing it.)

There's a game called "The Evolution of Trust" and it's very similar to this

Very nice succinct and clear explanation of this concept..Loved it .!👍

Snitches get stitches

Now I need to go play Zero Escape again.....

This model also does ignore third options, or potential consaquences. Such as the person you ratted out coming after you when they get out of prison, or if you both betray the other the potential of them attacking eachother in prison.

The best real world case of this game theory for me is in the old British gameshow with Jasper Carrott called Golden Balls. When the one guy tricks his opponent by saying he’s going to steal their money and then he doesn’t and they both get the best possible outcome with shared winnings. Look it up

This is why you never talk to the police... You wait for a lawyer and neither go to prison.

5:31 *YOU DID NOT HAVE TO PUT BLOOD! I'M WATCHING THIS AT NIGHTTIME!* -R.i.p me-

What you do is stay honest, so you can find/preserve honest people. That's more important than whatever advantage/escape you could get. Because if the world runs out of honest people, it's over.

Better example would be the mall I work at. We have 4 clothing stores that all market to teens and young adults and every big sale day (black friday, back to school, boxing day) they have the exact same sales because in the end co-operating mutually benefits everyone more than one store going 70% off when the others go 50%.

Red shouldn't worry too much, the criminal justice system is much more lenient on females. They'll probably pin the whole thing on blue anyway.

I really hope your channel gets big. you do an amazing job!

"here is a real world situation" proceeds to basically say that advertising doesn't work. Loved the video keep it up

Thanks for the explanation. This was really helpful.

Did anyone else hear this theory for the first time in Zero Escape?

I have played enough Zero Escape to know where this is going.

This is exactly what happens in the split or steal section at the end of the game show Golden Balls, with the exception that the two contestants are face to face and have to convince each other what to do. If both pick split, each gets half of the prize money. If one splits and one steals, the one that steals gets all of the money. If both steal, nobody gets the money. The best option is to split, but people are greedy.

Golden Balls is a TV show, and in a special round called "Split or Steal" they do something like this. There's a prize on the table and either person can split or steal. If both people split, they each get half of the prize, if both steal, no one gets the prize, and if one steals but not the other, the person who stole gets all the prize. It's more beneficial to steal mainly because you have a chance at getting more money rather than just splitting.

I was watching funny cat videos...now its 1:30 AM and im here. What happened?!

"these are creepier than they were in my head" XD

3:03 switch to advertising bussiness 😂.

This would never happen to me, I'm break too many laws that they don't even know which one I actually broke