# Metadata Source URL:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality Topics:: #game-theory, #economics --- # Superrationality - Wikipedia ## Highlights > [!quote]+ Updated on 270123_192559 > > In economics and game theory, a participant is considered to have superrationality (or renormalized rationality) if they have perfect rationality (and thus maximize their utility) but assume that all other players are superrational too and that a superrational individual will always come up with the same strategy as any other superrational thinker when facing the same problem. Applying this definition, a superrational player playing against a superrational opponent in a prisoner's dilemma will cooperate while a rationally self-interested player would defect.