Tesfan was on flamebait yesterday it’s not like he’s gone, just thought I’d point that out.

IDK why he wouldn’t take a shot at this if he got chosen and all he had to do was tubmail one word. It doesn’t make sense. It’s like, if you had one shot, or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted — one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?

Fortunato Posted:

because it’s funnier to just let Ghax stew.

did celerysteve just quote eminem? im not sure

99% chance at least one chooses foe. 80% they both do.

that’s why this is psychologically interesting. Both people profit if they can trust each other, but psychologically, the smaller guaranteed prize doesn’t make the larger risk guaranteed prize worth it.

Decision trees: Probability of outcome * positive or – desirability = ‘net’ decision value

In this case the probability of failure if ‘friend’ is selected is so high foe is the only good option.

Amasius Posted:

It depends – you know who you are playing against here so if you like the other person you might chose ‘friend’ if you want him to win and don’t mind getting nothing. It probably doesn’t look good for Ghax…

You’re right, since the only thing lost is paltry BP. Years in prison is another story, though.

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DarkDespair5 Posted:

Toxx?

If both participants agreed it would be okay. Definitely give ghax a better shot at winning.

Nillo Posted:

Well, I dunno. It feels like I’m toxxing myself if I don’t do what I originally said I was going to do in this contest, but I agree that getting a mail from Tesfan is unlikely at this point, so I’ll choose someone else.

Post below if you want to be the new participant. After five new posts I will randomly select one poster who will compete with ghax for the BP.

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E: Log in to see images! cya edited this message on 08/17/2009 3:56PM

I´d just choose friend.

So what. If he chooses friend I get a reward, if he chooses foe then he´ll get the price, but will have to live with haven taken advantage of me.

If both take foe they´ll be happy that at least the other one didn´t get anything and nothing is learned.

If one chooses friend and the other one foe, he either lerns to trust and some later time I might and up with a reward or at least earn some respect for my decision.

If It´s someone ho is just to greedy that´s his problem and he´ll learn soon enough or never, at least I can be at peace.

Havving earned trust helps you more long term then having a quick fix of whatever. As people realize someone is not trustworty he might end up loosing far more on the long run.

If you want to restart your little experiment count me in, my desicion won´t change anyway :-)