steven comments on Crisis of Faith - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 October 2008 10:08PM

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Comment author: steven 11 October 2008 08:32:05PM -1 points [-]

If an entire community can be persuaded to adopt a false belief, it may enable them to overcome a tragedy-of-the-commons or prisoners'-dilemma situation.

In a PD, agents hurt *each other*, not *themselves*. Obviously false beliefs in my enemy can help me.