AlephNeil comments on AI cooperation in practice - Less Wrong
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To prove that, the proof system would need to know its own consistency, because an inconsistent proof system could prove both of these statements and indeed any statement at all. But a proof system cannot know its own consistency without actually being inconsistent (Goedel's second theorem).
Aha - very cunning.