accolade comments on Epilogue: Atonement (8/8) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: accolade 21 January 2016 10:56:45PM 0 points [-]

why would anyone facing a Superhappy in negotiation not accept and then cheat?

The SH cannot lie. So they also cannot claim to follow through on a contract while plotting to cheat instead.

They may have developed their negotiation habits only facing honest, trustworthy members of their own kind. (For all we know, this was the first Alien encounter the SH faced.)