A (late) section of Project Lawful argues that there would likely be acausal coordination to avoid pessimizing the utility function (of anyone you are coordinating with), as well as perhaps to actively prevent utility function pessimization.
I always found that aspect weak. It is clearly and sadly evident that utility pessimization (I assume roughly synonymous with coercion?) is effective and stable, both on Golarion and Earth. Yet half the book seems to be gesturing at what a suboptimal strategy it is without actually spelling out how you can defeat an agent who pursues such a strategy (without having magic and some sort of mysterious meta-gods on your side).
A (late) section of Project Lawful argues that there would likely be acausal coordination to avoid pessimizing the utility function (of anyone you are coordinating with), as well as perhaps to actively prevent utility function pessimization.
I always found that aspect weak. It is clearly and sadly evident that utility pessimization (I assume roughly synonymous with coercion?) is effective and stable, both on Golarion and Earth. Yet half the book seems to be gesturing at what a suboptimal strategy it is without actually spelling out how you can defeat an agent who pursues such a strategy (without having magic and some sort of mysterious meta-gods on your side).