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. 

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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/
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