That's what I like to call " The prisoner's dilemma" .

我管这叫做进退两难。

Let's start with a classic of game theory, something called the " prisoner's dilemma" .

我们从经典的博弈理论开始，即" 囚徒困境悖论" 。

You can only appreciate The Prisoner's Dilemma by actually doing it.

只有亲身实践才能体会囚徒困境。

And a classic illustration of this is The Prisoner's Dilemma.

囚徒困境就是一个典型的例证。

Okay. Have you ever run a prisoner's dilemma?

好 你玩过囚徒困境吗？

Now, many of you, I think, have seen The Prisoner's Dilemma in one course or another?

现在，我想你们中的许多人都在某一门课程中看到了囚徒困境？

And now, the first cool result is that if we run the prisoner's dilemma with two of these new LOLA agents, they quickly find the Nash equilibrium.

那么现在，第一个很酷的结果是，如果我们用两个新 LOLA 代理来进行“囚徒困境”游戏，它们很快就能发现纳什均衡。

And he put together a competition where people brought in computer programs to play this game, to play The Prisoner's Dilemma.

他组织了一场竞赛， 人们引入计算机程序来玩这个游戏，玩“囚徒困境” 。

And you could see this--This is the standard origin of the prisoner's dilemma, why it's called " The Prisoner's Dilemma, " but you could see this all over the place.

你可以看到这一点——这就是囚徒困境的标准起源，为什么它被称为“囚徒困境” ，但你可以在任何地方看到这一点。

In game theory, this scenario is called the " Prisoner's Dilemma." To figure out how these gingerbread men will act in their perfect rationality, we can map the outcomes of each decision.

在博弈论中，这种情况被称为“囚徒困境”。为了弄清楚这些姜饼人将如何以完美的理性行事，我们可以绘制出每个决定的结果。