DanielLC comments on Your Price for Joining - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 03 April 2013 02:59:11AM 1 point [-]

If you're up against an agent from a species that you know has evolved traits like fairness and spite, then the rational course of action is certainly not to offer a penny. That should be true on any sane theory of rational action.

But is the rational course of action to accept a penny?

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