orthonormal comments on Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma - Less Wrong

69 Post author: orthonormal 07 June 2013 08:30AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 06 June 2013 07:32:21PM 3 points [-]

I wonder that too, but we haven't come up with anything satisfactory on a formal level despite working for a while. Anyone have a good idea?

Comment author: Will_Sawin 07 June 2013 06:39:40PM 6 points [-]

This might be a practical problem rather than a mathematical / philosophical problem. Many human beings, for cultural/biological reasons, think certain strategies in various games of economic interaction are unfair in a basically arbitrarily manner. If you come across a group of unfamiliar intelligences, you might find that they make strategies which randomly punish certain strategies for no apparent (to you) reason. The likelihood of this happening is empircal/scientific, not philosophical.