Osuniev comments on Fairness vs. Goodness - Less Wrong
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Nesov, fixed.
John, that would be an interesting middle ground of sorts - the trouble being that from a social perspective, you probably do want as much wealth generated as possible, if it's any sort of wealth that can be reinvested.
Reeves, if both players play (C, C) and then divide up the points evenly at the end, isn't that sort of... well... communism?
Is this wrong for other reason than cached thoughts though ? (Probably yes, but you didn't explain it).
Because it's rejecting the premise of a perfectly good experiment, not because it would be a bad idea in real life. Also there's difficulties with having canonical utility measures across agents, but that's a separate point.