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Comment author: Squark 29 July 2014 08:03:54PM 0 points [-]

But we're not bargaining. This works even if we never meet.

Yeah, which would make it acausal trade. It's still bargaining in the game theoretic sense. The agents have a "sufficiently advanced" decision theory to allow them to reach a Pareto optimal outcome (e.g. Nash bargaining solution) rather than e.g. Nash equilibrium even acausally. It has nothing to do with "respecting agency".