{"id":693,"date":"2007-02-28T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T15:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/02\/28\/1172676973804.html"},"modified":"2007-02-28T10:36:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T15:36:13","slug":"blogentry-how-i-met-your-mother-prisoners-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] How I Met Your Mother : Prisoner&#039;s Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was I hearing things Monday night, or did Robin actually tell Lilly not to &#034;go all Prisoner&#039;s Dilemma on me&#034; when she was about to confess something about Marshall&#039;s car?  The line was delivered so quickly and quietly, with no reaction at all, that I&#039;m left wondering if I just misheard it and the geeky part of my brain filled in the rest.<\/p>\n<p\/>Prisoner&#039;s Dilemma, for those who&#039;ve never heard of it, is something of a logic game where you have to figure out the optimal strategy for winning over time.  The general idea is that two prisoners have been sentenced, and are offered a deal &#8211; if one of them betrays the other, then he goes free and the other one gets 10 years. If they both betray each other, they both get 2 years.  But if they both stay silent, they both get 6 months.  So it&#039;s a cooperation game.  If they both go for the benefit that is best for them (potential freedom by turning the other guy in), then they both lose and end up with 2 years.  But if they both stay silent, knowing that they could be on the hook for up to 10 years, they could end up winning and getting out with just 6 months.<\/p>\n<p\/>Since the game is about betraying and not just about confessing, I&#039;m not really sure that Robin&#039;s prisoner&#039;s dilemma reference was accurate.    Anybody?  Did I just imagine it?<\/p>\n<p\/><b>Update<\/b>: It was still on my Tivo, and yes that&#039;s absolutely what she said:  &#034;Don&#039;t you go all prisoner&#039;s dilemma on me.&#034;  So hey, if one of the writers of this episode is out there trolling the blogs, I just want to say &#034;Noticed it.  Nice.&#034;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was I hearing things Monday night, or did Robin actually tell Lilly not to &#034;go all Prisoner&#039;s Dilemma on me&#034; when she was about to confess something about Marshall&#039;s car? The line was delivered so quickly and quietly, with no reaction at all, that I&#039;m left wondering if I just misheard it and the geeky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}