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Dagon comments on A simple game that has no solution - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: James_Miller 20 July 2014 06:36PM

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Comment author: Dagon 20 July 2014 08:17:33PM 2 points [-]

"assume both players are rational. What should player 2 do when player 1 acts irrationally?"

Player 2 should realize that his model is incorrect and come up with a new theory for player 1's motivation. If one is human-like, then two should guess that one was tempted by the shot at the 6 payoff and chose C. Play X.

Comment author: James_Miller 20 July 2014 08:29:04PM 0 points [-]

But unless you can prove that Player 2 would respond with X, you can't tell me that Player 1 is irrational for not picking A.