Jesse knows.
Jayne, you'll scare the women.
Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Apr 08, 2008 10:26:46 am PDT #334 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
tommyrot - Apr 08, 2008 10:27:49 am PDT #335 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The dilemma is: can you trust your buddy?
As well as, "Should I be a rat bastard and fuck over my buddy? 'Cuz if I don't, and he fucks over me, I'm totally fucked...."
amych - Apr 08, 2008 10:29:07 am PDT #336 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I thought Prisoner's Dilemma was the one where if you push the button, the other person gets punished, but if both of you push the button, um, something bad happens.
Electric shocks, as I learned this version.
But it's the same dilemma, ultimately -- you can get either no punishment or medium punishment; the other guy can get either medium punishment or lots of punishment; and neither of you has any way of knowing what the other is going to do.
Also, philosophers? Sick motherfuckers.
erikaj - Apr 08, 2008 10:29:08 am PDT #337 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Plus, the cops might be lying. He might not have said dick. But they're hoping you'll doubt him. "He says it was all you, Sparky,"
-t - Apr 08, 2008 10:29:53 am PDT #338 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
In fact, for either situation (your buddy doesn't talk or he does) you'll do better to talk than to not.
No, I don't think so. Then there's no dilemma. I think you don't walk if he goes down for it, but you get a lighter sentence.
Steph L. - Apr 08, 2008 10:30:19 am PDT #339 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Okay, but if you know that if you both keep quiet, you walk, then why would your buddy talk?
Hmm. I am, it seems, exceedingly naive and not cut out for a life of crime and thuggery.
tommyrot - Apr 08, 2008 10:32:07 am PDT #340 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Okay, but if you know that if you both keep quiet, you walk, then why would your buddy talk?
No, if you both keep quiet, you both get a short sentence. So if your buddy doesn't talk and you do, then you walk. So even in that case, you're better off talking.
Jessica - Apr 08, 2008 10:32:15 am PDT #341 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I always thought that if you both keep quiet, you'll do a minimal sentence. You only go free if you squeal on the other guy (who then does 10 years or whatever).
Laga - Apr 08, 2008 10:33:06 am PDT #342 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I am, it seems, exceedingly naive and not cut out for a life of crime and thuggery.
it's OK. I wouldn't talk either. Maybe we can share a cell after our accomplices rat us out.
tommyrot - Apr 08, 2008 10:33:17 am PDT #343 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I always thought that if you both keep quiet, you'll do a minimal sentence. You only go free if you squeal on the other guy (who then does 10 years or whatever).
Yeah, that's the way I've always heard it. Plus in Tom's quote (from wikipedia?) above, that's the way it is too.