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Originally Posted by Chris is me
The Prisoner's Dilemma, but applied to FIRST.
In this case, I wouldn't take their money. They're financially rewarding sabotage, and encouraging acts that would make no one's grandmother proud. I wouldn't judge the other team for being desperate for cash, though. They might need more than $400 and be out of options, and it would be unfair of me to think of them as un-GP...
If you're going to deny a FIRST team money based on one of the teams being extremely GP, the sponsor clearly doesn't get FIRST, and I want none of their money.
If the sponsor secretly would give neither team money unless they both shared, now that would be different. A valuable lesson rather than manipulation.
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My thoughts are that FIRSTERs probably tend towards the Superrational group more so than to the Rational group. This may be the first response I have ever seen that is UberSuperrational. Probably a scarce breed because they would die off in a competitive world, but refreshing to see. (By the way, it could be argued that this sponsor is trying to teach a valuable lesson of the benefits and dangers of cooperation. If you work at a food bank, it would be silly to starve yourself to death.)
I probably should have set this up as a blind poll as that is an important part of the experiement. There are still a few interesting arguments I have not seen yet. The values were very specific (at least in relative scaling). For those of you that have recognized Prisoner's Dilema, congrats. For those of you that haven't heard of it, think about what you would do before reading up on Prisoner's Dilema. You don't have to post, but I do ask that you think before reading (I would be thrilled if you do read about it though).