No, our decision theories don’t have any new insights for solving bargaining games. But such games are widely studied elsewhere, so maybe you can find a model that solves your problem if you feed it some more detail. Sorry for the disappointing response :-(
No, our decision theories don’t have any new insights for solving bargaining games.
I think they do give the insight that there can be no simple solution. Each player does have to think about the other’s thinking to get further advantage. Even if one of the players is (safely boxed) superintelligent and the other isn’t, as ASP problem demonstrates.
Don’t they at least a little bit? Isn’t pre-commitment a natural feature of TDT? That doesn’t necessarily solve such problems, but it does seem like its relevant. I suppose that’s not a new insight; guess I answered my own question.
Allowing players to precommit isn’t enough to pin down a single outcome in a bargaining game. Different combinations of precommitments can lead to different deals, or even failure to make a deal at all if they are incompatible.
In this context what the pseudo precommitment does is allow B to metaphorically break out of an ultimatum game even if A was somehow able to limit the situation to an ultimatum. Note: this would apply even if only B was using TDT and A was using a CDT.
No, our decision theories don’t have any new insights for solving bargaining games. But such games are widely studied elsewhere, so maybe you can find a model that solves your problem if you feed it some more detail. Sorry for the disappointing response :-(
I think they do give the insight that there can be no simple solution. Each player does have to think about the other’s thinking to get further advantage. Even if one of the players is (safely boxed) superintelligent and the other isn’t, as ASP problem demonstrates.
Don’t they at least a little bit? Isn’t pre-commitment a natural feature of TDT? That doesn’t necessarily solve such problems, but it does seem like its relevant. I suppose that’s not a new insight; guess I answered my own question.
Allowing players to precommit isn’t enough to pin down a single outcome in a bargaining game. Different combinations of precommitments can lead to different deals, or even failure to make a deal at all if they are incompatible.
In this context what the pseudo precommitment does is allow B to metaphorically break out of an ultimatum game even if A was somehow able to limit the situation to an ultimatum. Note: this would apply even if only B was using TDT and A was using a CDT.