Comment by fastball

16 days ago

Real life? Most not. Hacker News? Absolutely. Literally the comment I am replying to.

> But it won't happen, as it's just 0.00001% of all the training data.

Are you familiar with Tragedy of the Commons?

Tragedy of the Commons is just an analogy - so not the fact.

  • Tragedy of the Commons is not an analogy, it is an inevitable result of a large fraction of participants in a coordination game defecting due to perceived individual advantage.