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Vladimir_Nesov comments on Econ/Game theory question - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: Psychohistorian 11 May 2011 08:17PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 11 May 2011 11:29:54PM *  1 point [-]

It's theoretically indeterminate.

Since the question is (partially) of descriptive nature, theoretically you can just rerun the universe up until 5 seconds after they struck the deal and check the outcome. If you mean that existing theories don't give any useful answers, I agree, although again for the descriptive question we can have some useful stats.