Consider the following prisoner's dilemma: If Alice and Bob cooperate with one another by not confessing to police and informing on the other, they will each serve three years. If both choose not to cooperate with one another but to confess to the police and inform on each other, they will each serve eight years. And if one decides to cooperate with the other prisoner by not confessing and informing, but the other prisoner confesses and informs, the prisoner who confesses gets only one year and the other twenty-five. Egoistic reasoning by both Alice and Bob leads to what?
A) Bob serves one year in prison, and Alice serves twenty-five.
B) Bob and Alice each serve three years in prison.
C) Bob serves twenty-five years in prison, and Alice serves one.
D) Bob and Alice each serve eight years in prison.

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Egoistic reasoning leads both Alice and Bob to confess and inform on each other to minimize their own potential prison time, resulting in both serving eight years in prison.

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