Alicorn comments on Thomas C. Schelling's "Strategy of Conflict" - Less Wrong

81 Post author: cousin_it 28 July 2009 04:08PM

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Comment author: Alicorn 28 July 2009 05:34:49PM 2 points [-]

What do you mean by "enforced"?

Comment author: Wei_Dai 28 July 2009 05:50:17PM 4 points [-]

It means we can assume that once an agreement is made, all the agents will follow it. For example, the agreement may be a contract enforceable by law, or enforced by being provably coded into the agents' decision algorithms, or just by the physics of the situation like in my black hole example.

Comment author: Jack 28 July 2009 05:50:40PM 0 points [-]

I assume he means punishing defectors.