Vladimir_Nesov 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: Vladimir_Nesov 10 December 2011 03:40:36PM 0 points [-]

If lies are seen as strategic considerations, they should be part of the decision problem. I agree that technically we can limit the scope of the official decision to something symmetric, but allowing non-symmetric things to affect this setup seems sufficiently similar to allowing non-symmetric things to happen within the setup, which makes motivation for Stuart's construction unclear to me.

Comment author: cousin_it 16 December 2011 05:45:27PM *  1 point [-]

I still don't understand. The idea that the (possibly symmetric) outcome must not make unilateral deviations profitable is just the idea of Nash equilibrium. Do you think it shouldn't be used?