Wei_Dai comments on You can't signal to rubes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 01 January 2013 08:41:51PM *  0 points [-]

4 Dishonest signalling isn’t worth it.

I seem to recall seeing some game theoretic signaling models with wasteful pooling equilibria, where everyone sends the same costly signal and the receiver can't distinguish between the senders of different qualities. Can't find a specific model now, but here is a slide that mentions this fact on page 20.

Comment author: timtyler 01 January 2013 11:57:57PM *  0 points [-]

One of the original tag-based cooperation papers features a scenario where signal-based cooperation persists - despite regular forgery of the signals used. See:

Comment author: Peterdjones 01 January 2013 08:50:44PM 0 points [-]

Potlach?