{"id":1511,"date":"2008-03-30T14:27:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T12:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2008\/03\/30\/if-pigs-could-fly\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T13:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:35:56","slug":"if-pigs-could-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/03\/if-pigs-could-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"If pigs could fly"},"content":{"rendered":"

is a book that I am currently reading<\/a>. There is also a brief German\/English account how this sentence came into life<\/a>. What did you expect when reading the title??<\/p>\n

Something like “winners don’t punish”? A smart letter in this week’s Nature<\/a> with the 3 options of Cooperation(C) – Defection (D) and Punishment (P)?<\/p>\n

\"nice people\"\r\nplayer 1: C C C C\r\nplayer 2: C C C C top payoff!\r\n\"punish and perish\"\r\nplayer 1: C P P P P\r\nplayer 2: C D D D D extremely bad!\r\n\"turning the other cheek\"\r\nplayer 1: C C C C C\r\nplayer 2: D D C C C payoff still positive!\r\n<\/pre>\n
we should have known this earlier…<\/p>\n
Addendum<\/h3>\n
link to an earlier post here on “tit for tat”<\/a>
\nlink to “vengeance is ours” at Edge<\/a>
\nlink to “sermon on the mount”<\/a>
\nlink to “Prisoner’s dilemma<\/a>“<\/p>\n\n
 <\/p>\n
\n  CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
is a book that I am currently reading. There is also a brief German\/English account how this sentence came into life. What did you expect when reading the title?? Something like “winners don’t punish”? A smart letter in this week’s Nature with the 3 options of Cooperation(C) – Defection (D) and Punishment (P)? “nice people” … Continue reading If pigs could fly<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1746,1748,1751,1747,1745,1752,1185,218,1750],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","tag-administration","tag-application","tag-cooperation","tag-funding","tag-hell","tag-nice-people","tag-review","tag-science","tag-smart-letter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25536,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/25536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}