RPS 6/7 – Rachel

I found chapter 6 very interesting to read. I really liked what the author said about trust and how it forms. For some people, it can be really difficult to trust someone that you don’t know and for other people trusting new people is really easy. Some people may be very trusting but then when they are betrayed or experience trust being broken it can be really hard to trust others again. One part about this chapter that I found very interesting was the different tricks and scams people use that take advantage of human’s trusting nature. I found the one about Thompson really fascinating and think it could be very relatable for many people. I think a lot of people’s willingness to trust can come from first impressions such as the way people dress, look, and speak.

In chapter 7 I liked to hear about the importance of cooperation. I think that is very important in all aspects of life. I think cooperation has the ability to get better and if that can happen it will solve a lot of issues and social dilemmas. I liked reading about the new strategies and the five rules of evolution and cooperation. I would like to learn more about these and see how they would play out. I think the next chapter about changing the game and reducing the temptation to cheat sounds very interesting and could have a lot of good points, I am excited to continue reading.

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2 Responses

  1. Alexander Clinton says:
    September 26, 2018 at 11:22 am

    I too also found the scams that people will use to try and gain the trust of people. I think Lauren’s point about making a decision of whether to trust a person based off a first impression is a very interesting. If someone has similar styles to themselves maybe a person would be more likely to trust them. Also discussing cooperation I think that the example of the vampire bats is a metaphor for the real life for humans. If humans cooperated fully as a race maybe we wouldn’t have hunger problems we do today.

  2. Wogan Snyder says:
    September 26, 2018 at 1:13 pm

    I agree with your assessment of Fisher’s words on tricks and scams and found them very relevant to two of the games we’ve played recently: Settlers of Catan and Werewolf. Both games involve some degree of scamming/tricking (if the players so choose to). One specific example from Settlers of Catan is: I engaged in a trade with Jeremy in which I agreed to give him 2 sheep for 1 ore in exchange for him not placing the robber on my sheep pasture, but I only had 1 sheep to trade and he desperately needed sheep so he conceded and traded me the ore I needed to settle the spot he was planning on settling with the 2 sheep I was supposed to trade him (call me Bernie Madoff). As for Werewolf, scamming an tricking is much less controllable and dependent upon public opinion and chance. The werewolves experienced this the most as their job was to eliminate all the villagers while tricking them into thinking that they were one of them (some more successful than others). I found this reading highly applicable to our games.