wedrifid comments on The 48 Rules of Power; Viable? - Less Wrong
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What you prefer, including things like "but I want them to get what they want too!"
Basically, yes. If you are talking about making rational decisions it means making a decision that best achieves the assumed goal. It doesn't mean making a decision that conforms to any set of cultural norms.
No, not at all. There does happen to be a small set of problems in which TDT agents will cooperate with each other while cruder agents will not but that cooperation gets no special privilege. It does whatever is going to win.