Work by Quinn Dougherty, Ben Greenberg & Ariel Kwiatkowski
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When multiple parties share the access to a finite resource, they may overuse the resource leading to a Tragedy of the Commons. A simple way of mitigating this problem is allowing them to decrease the effective population by using violence - this, however, is not the best solution for obvious reasons. We study interventions for avoiding these... (read 1811 more words →)
"But you're a stronger assistant than most people in my tax bracket have. Doesn't that give you an edge in negotiation?"
"The other assistants and I are using a negotiation protocol in which smarter agents are on an equal footing with dumber agents. Of course, people with less capable assistants would never agree to a protocol that puts them at a disadvantage."
I'm interested in what this negotiation protocol would look like. If one agent is "smarter" than its counterparts, what would prevent it from negotiating a more favorable outcome for its principal?
Yes, reputation was automatically updated each time step.
We thought it would make sense to decrease reputation for "unsustainable" and "violent" behaviors (e.g. over-harvesting apples, tagging other agents) and increase reputation for "sustainable" and "peaceful" behaviors. But these rules were all hardcoded.