Misha comments on In the Pareto world, liars prosper - Less Wrong

15 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 December 2011 02:15PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 December 2011 11:28:16PM 3 points [-]

Does the liar need to know the other player's utility function in order to lie correctly? I have seen this idea before in a talk about cake-cutting algorithms -- but there, the liar risked ending up worse off if she mis-estimated the utility functions of the other players.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 December 2011 09:18:22AM 1 point [-]

Does the liar need to know the other player's utility function in order to lie correctly?

Yes. He also needs to know the option set.