Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Cooperating with agents with different ideas of fairness, while resisting exploitation - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 September 2013 08:27AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (44)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 18 September 2013 01:14:17PM 0 points [-]

Humans are known to have culturally dependent fairness ideas. There are a lot of studies which tested these repeatedly with the ultimatum game:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game#Experimental_results

A meta study basically confirms this here:

http://www.econ.nagoya-cu.ac.jp/~yhamagu/ultimatum.pdf