Dungeon Crawl 18 PDF

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You'll play the game "Evolution of Trust" and write about your experience at the same time you play the game. Read the Arnson_Wilson_Akert – Social Dilemmas chapter from the Dungeon Crawl 18 Resources and answer the questions. Professor Chelsea Lovejoy (Online)....

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Howdy! I’m Flowey the Flower. See that heart? That is your SOUL, the very culmination of your being! Your SOUL starts off weak, but you can grow strong if you gain a lot of LV. What’s LV stand for? Why, LOVE, of course! You want some LOVE, don’t you? Don’t worry, I’ll share some with you. Down here, LOVE is shared through… little white… “friendliness pellets.” Are you ready? Move around! Get as many as you can! Mission: Think very carefully before collecting any of those “friendliness pellets.” Instead, I would move on and learn about trust and game theory. Reward: 15 XP

STEP 1: Follow the link to play, The Evolution of Trust, https://ncase.me/trust/ (takes approximately 30 minutes to play). As you play, answer the questions below. Please note that the black bars with circles represent the progress bar within the game to show you at what step you should attempt to answer each question.

In what month and year did peace briefly break out during WW1? December 1914.

Copycat Were you right?

YES

NO

Who do you think will win the first round of the tournament? _Copycat______________ Were you right?

YES

NO

Who do you think will win ultimately? ____Copycat_________________________________ Were you right?

YES

NO

Which character type died out first? __All cooperate_____________________ Were you right?

YES

NO

Interestingly, the winning philosophy is both a ___________truth and a ____________ truth!

Explore this one on your own a little and then select the next dot to progress.

What is the fatal weakness of the copycat? If there is a mistake or a miscommunication, then that will lead to a cycle of mistrust. Who do you think will win when there is a 5% chance of making a mistake and half of the population is always cooperate? ___Copy kitten_________

Who actually won?

___Simpleton______________ Who do you think will win when there is a 5% chance of making a mistake and half of the population is always cheat? ___Copy kitten_________

Who actually won?

____Copy kitten__________ At what percentage of communication does each type of player win? 1.___Copycat/kitten____________ %_0-10_

2.__Always cheat______ 3.__Nobody wins____________

%_11-___ %__50__

According to the game, what is needed for the evolution of trust? Repeated interactions and a non-zero-sum game.

STEP 2: Write a reflection about your experience with the game. I liked it a lot! It was really interesting seeing how miscommunication has a HUGE affect on the outcome of who would win. I love the story of the Christmas Truce in 1914 because it shows that even though there are a lot of “Always Cheat” people in the world, the nice people in the world can experience more benefits from being nice than being greedy.

STEP 3: Read the Arnson_Wilson_Akert – Social Dilemmas chapter from the Dungeon Crawl 18 Resources. In psychology they are known as social dilemmas, in other fields, such as economics, these same ideas are referred to as Game Theory. I don’t know the history about why multiple fields are studying the same thing with different names. STEP 4: Answer the questions below. 1. What is the prisoner’s dilemma? The prisoner’s dilemma is when 2 people must make a choice between both people benefiting at a lower cost, or one person benefitting at a higher cost, but throwing the other person under the bus. 2. Explain the tragedy of the commons dilemma and provide an example. If players cannot communicate, they will most likely always try to benefit themselves, even if they can also benefit the other person. 3. Explain the public goods dilemma and provide an example. Each decision someone makes influences the rest of the community. A good example of the public goods dilemma is listening to podcasts and deciding on whether or not to donate money to keep your favorite podcasts running. If you donate, you are benefitting not only yourself, but everyone else who listens. However, if you donate, you are losing money when other people may not be donating. You have to decide whether your donation is good enough. Okay, one more example for fun…

STEP 5: Watch the Bachelor Pad season finale (10 minutes) found in the Dungeon Crawl 18 Resources and answer the items below. 1. Make a prediction about the outcome (before you watch the ending). Who (if any) will keep, and who (if any) will share the prize? Before seeing the conclusion, I guess that both of them will try to keep the money (and thus, lose). However, when the man revealed he was sharing, and I saw the woman react the way she did, I thought she would keep it all. But, when she revealed that she was also sharing, I was so relieved! 2. What type of dilemma was portrayed in the clip? This was the prisoner’s dilemma....