AspiringRationalist comments on Principals, agents, negotiation, and precommitments - Less Wrong

17 Post author: gwillen 21 September 2012 03:41AM

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Comment author: AspiringRationalist 23 September 2012 07:26:04PM 2 points [-]

Why wouldn't you just rewrite your source code to eliminate those options?

While corporations don't have literal source code to modify, operating under a set of procedures that visibly make negotiation impossible, such as having the customer interact with an employee who is not authorized to negotiate, does essentially what you are saying.