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Veritasium
Veritasium explores the Prisoner's Dilemma and Axelrod's tournaments, showing why tit-for-tat and forgiving strategies win in repeated games. It extends the ideas to cooperation in evolution and conflict.
HN commenters reach for it constantly as an approachable explanation of why cooperation and reciprocity are rational strategies.
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