NihilCredo comments on Taking the awkwardness out of a Prenup - A Game Theoretic solution - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NihilCredo 25 May 2010 03:35:40AM *  1 point [-]

The phrase between parentheses is a critical issue, since it is extremely easy - and, in fact, the default - to cheat without producing illegitimate offspring, thus making the prenup fairly worthless.

It's actually likely to make things worse, since swearing that "I will not cheat and get pregnant" is going to bring one's attention to the backdoor - i.e. that you never promised not to cheat outright. It looks like a classical and extremely clumsy deception.

Unless, that is, you'd be happy with your husband being suspicious of you at the same time he is confident that his child is really his.

Comment author: Alicorn 25 May 2010 03:38:19AM 1 point [-]

Of course I would also promise not to cheat outright; this just doesn't have the convenience of being so easily verifiable.