Osuniev comments on Fairness vs. Goodness - LessWrong

10 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 February 2009 08:22PM

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Comment author: Osuniev 08 March 2013 09:18:06AM 3 points [-]

/ 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).

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 March 2013 03:31:35PM 0 points [-]

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.