Three reasons to cooperate – The sideways view
In this post I’ll discuss three reasons to cooperate in a truly one-shot prisoner’s dilemma: Kindness: You care about the other player. Correlation. Your decision is correlated with the…
In this post I’ll discuss three reasons to cooperate in a truly one-shot prisoner’s dilemma: Kindness : You care about the other player. Correlation . Your decision is correlated with the other player’s decision. Reciprocity . Your decision is correlated with the other player’s belief about your decision. Kindness makes common sense, but correlation and reciprocity are often lumped together under “weird acausal stuff.” I think they are worth distinguishing because they work quite differently. I’ll talk about details of correlation and reciprocity, and
related reading
- The True Prisoner's Dilemma — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Reasons to Be Nice to Other Value Systems – Center on Long-Term Risklongtermrisk.org
- Multiverse-wide cooperation in a nutshell — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
- Multiverse-wide Cooperation via Correlated Decision Making – Center on Long-Term Risklongtermrisk.org
- SlateStarCodex — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Prisoner's dilemma - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Don't Surround Yourself With Smarter People — Ribbonfarmribbonfarm.com
- Statistical physics of human cooperationarxiv.org
- Eight Short Studies On Excuses — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Once you understand game theory, you understand the world.youtube.com
- Cooperating with aliens and AGIs: An ECL explainer — LessWronglesswrong.com