Unlocking Whole Population Cooperation Through Player Abilities in Games
The article explores how people with different abilities can cooperate in a game. Players are randomly matched and play a game where they can choose to keep working together. High ability players can get better results for themselves and their partners than low ability players. The study finds that in a certain type of equilibrium, the whole group can cooperate long-term because players prefer partners with higher abilities. This means that cooperation can happen even without knowing each other's past actions.