{"id":5081,"date":"2020-03-02T12:42:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2020-03-02T12:42:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:42:56","slug":"the-volunteers-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/03\/02\/the-volunteers-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Volunteer&#8217;s Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the past, I have learned about Game Theory and the Prisoner\u2019s Dilemma through my other Jepson classes such as Dr. Von Reuden\u2019s Leadership and the Social Sciences and Dr. Coestee\u2019s Justice and Leadership Class, however the in depth analysis of numerous concepts and premises for Game Theory in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rock, Paper, and Scissors<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was interesting and eye opening. One of the first major points Len Fisher makes that struck me was the idea that in a sense, all the dilemmas discussed are the same dilemma and the only total solution would be absolute cooperation (Fisher 56). This solution seems so simple, however based on the number of opinions and actions performed by each and every person, total cooperation seems impossible. Aside from this idea, I found the Volunteer\u2019s Dilemma, and the single word description of \u201cmamihlapinatapai\u201d to be very interesting and quite relatable. In order to describe the prisoner\u2019s dilemma, the Yag\u00e1n Indians of Tierra del Fuego invented the term \u201cmamihlapinatapai,\u201d which literally means \u201clooking at each other hoping that the other will offer to do something that both parties desire to have done but are unwilling to do themselves\u201d (Fisher 76). To further prove how accurate and relatable this definition is, the 1993 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guinness Book of Records<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> labeled it as the \u201cmost succinct\u201d word in any language. Game theorists view this dilemma as a multi person version of the prisoner\u2019s dilemma. Fisher used relatable examples to allow readers to further understand the Volunteer\u2019s Dilemma including siblings who must choose who cleans up or has to take the garbage out. Through the introduction of the word \u201cmamihlapinatapai\u201d and engaging examples, Fisher helps readers understand the Volunteer\u2019s Dilemma surrounds us, and various new social pressures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, I have learned about Game Theory and the Prisoner\u2019s Dilemma through my other Jepson classes such as Dr. Von Reuden\u2019s Leadership and the Social Sciences and Dr. Coestee\u2019s Justice and Leadership Class, however the in depth analysis of numerous concepts and premises for Game Theory in Rock, Paper, and Scissors was interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}