LKBM comments on 9/26 is Petrov Day - Less Wrong

98 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 September 2007 04:14PM

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Comment author: LKBM 26 September 2010 03:05:28PM 0 points [-]

John_Maxwell: It's called the Ultimatum Game, and you're right that assuming you're only playing once, it's irrational to refuse any offer, but of course people do.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 26 September 2010 03:11:59PM *  4 points [-]

It might be symptomatic of an error to refuse the actual offer, but you can benefit from having the property of refusing the counterfactual offers that would never be actually made (as a result of your having that property).