Will_Pearson comments on Lawful Uncertainty - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 November 2008 09:06PM

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Comment author: Will_Pearson 11 November 2008 12:25:35AM 0 points [-]

Chicken is a game where it is best to be random. You are random because you don't want to be predictable and thus exploitable.

Comment author: christopherj 08 April 2014 04:01:19PM 1 point [-]

If you're predictably committed to winning the game of chicken, then you have essentially already won, at least against a rational opponent. Though you'd have to wonder how you wound up with a rational opponent if the game is chicken.