THE EVOLUTION OF TRUST
It is a webpage game on Game Theory. In front of you is a machine: if you put a coin in the machine, the other player gets three coins – and vice versa. You both can either choose to COOPERATE (put in coin), or CHEAT (don’t put in coin).
It has a Sandbox Mode and you can set people with different strategy to plat against each other and to see who will win this game.
It has offer you seven types of people: Copy cat, Cheater, Cooperator, Grudger, Detective, Copykitten, Simpleton each with different Strategy. Then it has several steps to simulate the game between these people:
1. PLAY A TOURNAMENT
Let them all play against each other, and tally up their scores.
2. ELIMINATE LOSERS
Get rid of the 5 worst players. (if there’s a tie, pick randomly between them)
3. REPRODUCE WINNERS
Clone the 5 best players. (if there’s a tie, pick randomly between them)
And you can also set the number of each type of people, the payoffs for their action, the rounds you want to play and how many people would make a mistake. It is interesting that with the mistakes, you can get totally different outcomes.
From this game, we can learn that What the game is, defines what the players do.
Our problem today isn’t just that people are losing trust, it’s that our environment acts against the evolution of trust.
That may seem cynical or naive — that we’re “merely” products of our environment — but as game theory reminds us, we are each other’s environment. In the short run, the game defines the players. But in the long run, it’s us players who define the game. So, do what you can do, to create the conditions necessary to evolve trust. Build relationships. Find win-wins. Communicate clearly.
This webpage clearly shows what the outcome of a game with all different conditions and the detailing processing within this, especially with a crowed of people. This are expansion of what we have learned on the class about evolutionary game theory.
Link：
http://ncase.me/trust/