Hunt a Deer to Together: The Stag Hunt Problem

In this episode, the boys review an element of Game Theory that seems to fly in the face of every basic tenant of self-interest.  The Stag Hunt, established by French Philosopher Jean-Jacque Rousseau in his work "Discourse on Inequality," creates a game wherein two hunters can either work together to secure a large shared bounty or work separately for a significantly smaller bounty.  This contradicts the Prisoner's Dilemma in which self-interest is always the rational move. In the Stag Hunt, collaboration is the way to go.  CONNECT WITH US: Game Theory on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gametheorypod Game Theory on Twitter: @GameTheoryPod https://twitter.com/GameTheoryPod Nick on Twitter: @tribnic https://twitter.com/tribnic Chris on Twitter: @ChrisAndrews315 https://twitter.com/ChrisAndrews315 Read the Blog: http://bit.ly/3R05Y2P **Googliography** Stag Hunt:  Source of basic description and David Hume examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stag_hunt#Examples_of_the_stag_hunt More info on Hume: https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Hume Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~bskyrms/bio/papers/StagHunt.pdf More info on Rousseau: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Jacques-Rousseau Cornell blog: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2015/09/21/the-stag-hunt-theory-and-the-formation-social-contracts/ Carousel feeding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel_feeding