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Oscar_Cunningham comments on Even with default points, systems remain exploitable - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 19 July 2013 04:24PM

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 20 July 2013 08:13:53AM 7 points [-]

If both players lie in this way, the standard outcome is the default point

Does that mean choosing whether to lie or not is like a prisoner's dilemma?

Comment author: Zvi 21 July 2013 11:31:08AM 3 points [-]

Yes, and this parallels real negotiation. If the two sides sufficiently trust each other, you show each other your term sheets (basically utility functions), find the Pareto optimum set of solutions and then pick a point on that line.

For sufficiently reliably repeated interactions that don't vary too much in size, with agents with whom trust is in context total, from what I can tell optimum real world behavior is isomorphic to MWBS with a meta-negotiation over the ratio. As these conditions get closer to yours, your behavior should approach MWBS.