Vladimir_Nesov comments on Timeless Decision Theory: Problems I Can't Solve - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 July 2009 12:02AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 20 July 2009 11:40:03AM *  2 points [-]

It's to your individual benefit to be more (unconsciously) selfish and calculating in these situations, whether the other people in your group have a fairness drive or not.

Not if you are punished for selfishness. I'm not sure how reasonable the following analysis it (since I didn't study this kind of thing at all); it suggests that fairness is a stable strategy, and given some constraints a more feasible one than selfishness:

M. A. Nowak, et al. (2000). `Fairness versus reason in the ultimatum game.'. Science 289(5485):1773-1775. (PDF)

Comment author: orthonormal 20 July 2009 05:28:45PM 0 points [-]

See reply to Tim Tyler.