drethelin comments on Backward Reasoning Over Decision Trees - Less Wrong

60 Post author: Yvain 30 June 2012 03:17AM

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Comment author: drethelin 28 June 2012 03:55:47PM 1 point [-]

How about a hostage negotiation? If the negotiator has a gun, that gives him more options, but it also means the kidnapper has to take it into account. This may lead to a breakdown in communications.

Comment author: shminux 28 June 2012 08:16:36PM -1 points [-]

I think that expecting rationality from a kidnapper is pushing it a bit.