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Ex-Pussy Riot member Rita Flores says she was FSB informant for nearly 3 years before escaping Russia (theins.press)

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

How do you believe this is the Prisoner's Dilemma?

I think 99.9% would make the same choice.

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[–] andyburke@fedia.io 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

She chose to betray her associates to improve her own situation.

You may believe 99% of people would make that choice, but I don't think you have any evidence for that.

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[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

They were threatening her family. If you know anything about the FSB you know these are not idle threats. She chose to cooperate to prevent harm to her family and at the same time tried to get out from under the assignment she got from the FSB.

Reducing this to a prisoners dilemma is really not helpful for predicting real people's responses to situations like that.

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[–] andyburke@fedia.io 3 points 1 hour ago

Her family is safe now? I doubt it. This is exactly the prisoners' dilemma and why that thought experiment exists.

Russia is happy someone as visible as this is showing they were turned.

This sucks all around, for her, for anyone who hates fascism.

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