[JoeSamoa]

I like the theory, but I'm curious how climate change as a prisoners dilemma would play into your hypothesis. Optimizing finance rather than the environmental externality... Maybe we just don't see how it's in our best interest to cooperate?

[challenger22]

Let's say you had a version of the prisoner's dilemma where 7 billion people had to cooperate for the highest payoff to occur. Would you cooperate?

[dotancohen]

This is probably the most insight comment that I've seen on HN all year. Thank you.

[taneq]

Hmm... "Disregard externalities" as a form of defecting?

[JoeSamoa]

No I mean we need to focus on negative externalities like environmental impacts.