Comments by "panner11" (@panner11) on "What Game Theory Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything" video.

@newstartt99 The chess example is very short sighted. Chess is a game with direct competition, the opponent can only be your competition and there is no incentive to cooperative. But in real life, there is virtually no situation like this other than in games themselves (like sports). Even in a situation where someone attacks you, cooperation (ex convince them to stop and they agree) is a viable option. The video is just interesting evidence of the theory matching the reality. It's pretty obvious to any civil person that cooperating more than betraying in your daily life will lead to good outcomes.
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@chrisprilloisebola there's competition but rarely zero sum games in real life. If people approached life as a zero sum game, we wouldn't have society. Sophisticated human cooperation is the only reason we aren't living like cavemen. Look how as every aspect of society is predicated on growth, if it was zero sum, there wouldn't be growth. Individuals can sometimes benefit by being uncooperatively selfish, but in a macro scale, such a philosophy would never work. The lesson is don't fall for that edgelord crap and just live like a decent person.
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@chrisprilloisebola Of course it's not how it always works, but it is a good philosophy to live life by. The daily lives of people in developing countries isn't that of deceit and betrayal. It's mostly decent people living decent lives, but being exploited by structures of power. But it's not a regular citizen has any say in that. All anyone is saying is that in real life cooperation is how people get by in life,not that you should always do it no matter what. That should be obvious. And pedantically arguing in favor of being uncooperative? I find that to be the type of edge lord cynicism you see a lot these days.
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@kirito3082 17:42 addresses this point directly
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