Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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.
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.
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,"
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Lawyer up and don't say nothing.
What erika said, Tep. The cops'll tell him you talked and tell you he talked, with props and whatnot to be convincing.
Yeah, I gotta say, my answer is totally different if Frank Pembleton is in the box with me.