Comments on: $200 Bribe or $300 Fine - A Game Theoretic Analysis

By: Aoshi_88

Aoshi_88 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:40:48 +0000

Avoid-fine-from-cop no jutsu… HYAAGHHHH!!!!

By: Chewxy

Chewxy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:16:32 +0000

Aoshi:
Yes, sometimes the simplest solutions are the best

Coffeeholic:
LOL. Really? Gotta meet up with Irene and ask her her techniques

By: Coffeeholic

Coffeeholic — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:45:17 +0000

Act innocent like I-Rene. She always escaped. No fine, no bribery, no nothing. No idea how she makes it.

By: Aoshi_88

Aoshi_88 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:45:15 +0000

Do the simple thing… don’t bribe them.

Some cops ask for bribes even before they take out their booklet to issue you a summons.

And if they ask, “How do we settle this?”, just ask for the fine.

By: Chewxy

Chewxy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:12:08 +0000

Hmm okay.

Being interested doesn’t mean having the incentive to be bothered.

By: Liss

Liss — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:55:20 +0000

A. Speed’s back.
B. You’d be counting yourself as one of the few who “aren’t interested”. Yet you ARE interested, but can’t be bothered because ‘apparently’ others aren’t interested. I want to explain more but I can’t figure out how to say…

By: Chewxy

Chewxy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:06:32 +0000

Liss:
Yah. That’s why I said “I doubt I’d be marginal enough to cause a change”. Not so much of a victim mentality, but more of apathy. Like in terms of voting - pointless. Not every bit counts if not everyone is interested. (I feel a bit lazy to calculate an n-player game though, and besides, there is a ton of papers on voting already - both for and against it)
Er, in 2 days, TPG will release the throttle, so the speed will be back up at 24mbps.

Tubby:
Hmm.. no thanks mate. Not interested in serving the public. Heh.

By: Tubby

Tubby — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:46:30 +0000

I vote for Chew to be a policeman in Malaysia.

| Tubby |

By: Liss

Liss — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:45:54 +0000

Ever heard of the saying “every little bit counts”? Yeah. I’m tempted to say you’ve got somewhat of a ‘victim mentality’ for this. A bit “what’s the point? I’m only one person; I can’t do anything!”.

What’s happening in 2 days?

By: Chewxy

Chewxy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:30:42 +0000

Danny:
Paid the fine, didn’t report (couldn’t be bothered), and still living with a clear conscience. I doubt I’d be marginal enough to cause a change.

Liss:
Heh. Nvm, keep resetting. 2 more days…

zcer:
yeah, sorry. I was supposed to post that in the Random Miscellaneous Stuff post… but I thought I had stuffed enough economic nonsense in it already. But yea.

This isn’t a justification though. I did it just for fun. If I wanted to justify me paying the fines, I’d use other methods to.
Assumptions were necessary as I said, there is really a dearth of data available, so you just have to make do, and use rough probabilities.