The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory
The discovery of a winning strategy for Prisoner's Dilemma
is forcing game theorists to rethink their discipline. Their conclusion?
Winning isn't everything.
The world of game theory is currently on fire. In May,
Freeman Dyson at Princeton University and William Press at the University of
Texas announced that they had discovered a previously unknown strategy for the
game of prisoner's dilemma which guarantees one player a better outcome than
the other.