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    Determining which type of game agents are actually playin... — Carmelics
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    Determining which type of game agents are actually playing is of critical practical importance, because the correct intervention depends on the game structure.

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    • 1.Hobbesian external enforcement is the appropriate solution for Prisoner's Dilemmas.
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    • 2.Recalibration of interest evaluations is the appropriate solution for coordination games.
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    • 3.Misidentifying a coordination game as a PD leads to applying the wrong intervention.
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    • 1.Game structures are not observer-independent facts but are constituted by agents' interpretations, which are themselves shaped by intervention.
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    • 2.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that no behavioral evidence uniquely determines which game agents are 'really' playing.
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    • 3.Therefore, the diagnostic step presupposed by the claim is epistemically circular: interventions alter the game structure they purport to identify.
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    • 1.Schelling's focal point theory demonstrates that salient equilibria emerge from shared cultural context, not game-theoretic structure alone.
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    • 2.NATO-style external enforcement can itself become a focal point that transforms a coordination game into a PD by introducing adversarial framing.
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    • 3.The claim's practical prescription thus risks being self-undermining: correct diagnosis does not guarantee that the intervention preserves the diagnosed structure.
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    According to Hardin, neither the Yugoslavian nor the Rwandan disasters were PDs to begin with. That is, in neither situation, on either side, did most people begin by preferring the destruction of the other to mutual cooperation. However, the deadly logic of coordination, deliberately abetted by self-serving politicians, dynamically created PDs. Some individual Serbs (Hutus) were encouraged to perceive their individual interests as best served through identification with Serbian (Hutu) group-int
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    The Yugoslav and Rwandan cases illustrate that misdiagnosis could mean NATO enfo...
    The claim's practical prescription thus risks being self-undermining: correct di...
    Therefore, the diagnostic step presupposed by the claim is epistemically circula...
    Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that no behavioral evidence un...
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