Eugine_Nier comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Will_Newsome 03 October 2010 02:43AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 03 October 2010 08:36:49PM 1 point [-]

I agree with your first two, but am dubious about your third.

Comment author: mattnewport 03 October 2010 08:58:04PM *  3 points [-]

Two points that influence my thinking on that claim:

  1. Gains from trade have the potential to be greater with greater difference in values between the two trading agents.
  2. Destruction tends to be cheaper than creation. Intelligent agents that recognize this have an incentive to avoid violent conflict.