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Learning to cooperate: Reciprocity and self-control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Peter Danielson
Peter Danielson
Affiliation:
Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z2, Canadapad@ethics.ubc.ca http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/~pad
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Abstract

Using a simple learning agent, we show that learning self-control in the primrose path experiment does parallel learning cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma. But Rachlin's claim that “there is no essential difference between self-control and altruism” is too strong. Only iterated prisoner's dilemmas played against reciprocators are reduced to self-control problems. There is more to cooperation than self-control and even altruism in a strong sense.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 256 - 257
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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