Tit for Tat

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

History, Science, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In the early 60s, Robert Axelrod was a math major messing around with refrigerator-sized computers. Then a dramatic global crisis made him wonder about the space between a rock and a hard place, and whether being good may be a good strategy. With help from Andrew Zolli and Steve Strogatz, we tackle the prisoner’s dilemma, a classic thought experiment, and learn about a simple strategy to navigate the waters of cooperation and betrayal. Then Axelrod, along with Stanley Weintraub, takes us back to the trenches of World War I, to the winter of 1914, and an unlikely Christmas party along the Western Front.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.6	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N. Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:19.2	Hey, this is Radio Lab. I'm Chad Abumrad.
0:21.5	I'm Robert Krillwitch.
0:23.6	Oh.
0:24.6	Yes, would you like to say our topic, Robert?
0:26.1	Our topic today is goodness.
0:27.9	Hey, I'm Chad.
0:28.7	So last week, we played you a show that is one of our all-time favorites.
0:32.1	It was three different stories about different kinds of collisions between people, between moral
0:40.1	philosophies, between right and wrong, even right and left. Anyhow, this week, I want to continue
0:47.3	the thoughts we had going in that show for one more step. We're going to play part of a different
0:52.6	show that takes the strategies that
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