Joker’s Game Theory in The Dark Knight
Monday, August 4th, 2008
In The Dark Knight movie, there is a scene where Joker traps two ferries that carrying people out of Gotham. Each boat has different passengers :
- Boat 1 = Contains the prisoners, several policemen and jail guardian
- Boat 2 = Contains civilians, they are free and look more educated than most people at the first boat
Each of the boat has a bomb placed inside and the detonator to detonate the other bomb, so Boat 1 could detonate the bomb in Boat 2 and vice versa.
With time limit given, they have to choose between to detonate or not, and both of the boat can’t communicate to each other. Yes, this is could be a prisoner’s dilemma or game of chicken because they faced morality problem, they could be a murderer.
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