What Is the Term for a Situation in Which Everyone

question 18

Multiple Choice

What is the term for a situation in which everyone is made worse off when all pursue self-interest?

• A) paradox of hedonism
• B) prisoner's dilemma
• C) egoistic pitfall
• D) mutually assured destruction

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Definitions:

Programmer

An individual who writes, tests, debugs, and maintains the source code of computer programs.

Pointer Expression

An expression that produces the address of a variable or a memory location, often used in languages like C and C++ for direct memory access.

Compiler

A software tool that translates source code written in a high-level programming language into machine code, executable by a computer's hardware.

Pointer Expression

An expression that involves pointers, which are variables that store memory addresses.