Wei_Dai 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: 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.