emic-and-etic comments on Cooperating with agents with different ideas of fairness, while resisting exploitation - Less Wrong
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Framing this as a game theoretic question is pretty crude. My naive conception of fairness and that of others probably satisfies whatever you throw at it. It approximates the Rabin fairness model of utility:
"Past utility models incorporated altruism or the fact that people may care not only about their own well-being, but also about the well-being of others. However, evidence indicates that pure altruism does not occur often, contrarily most altruistic behavior demonstrates three facts (as defined by Rabin) and these facts are proven by past events.[2] Due to the existence of these three facts, Rabin created a utility function that incorporates fairness.:
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