When scientists approach individuals vulnerable from recent memory/identity-reassignment surgery who remain unsure whether anyone is still out to get them and provide an offer of safe haven for a period of several years, it appears to be an offer perhaps not too good to refuse but welcome for all that. The safe haven turns out to be an iterative prisoner’s dilemma with open record scoresheets–that is, individuals assume the roles of people from the somewhat distant past of 1950s earth, probably somewhere in the USA, and are rewarded for actions that are in character and punished for actions out of character.
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