Those are all good reasons but as far as I can tell Desrtopa would probably give the right answer if questioned about any of those. He seems to be aware of how people actually behave (not remotely TDTish) but this gets overridden by a flashing neon light saying “Rah Cooperation!”.
He may be mistaken about how high trust the society he lives in is. This is something it is actually surprisingly easy to be wrong about, since our intuitions aren’t built for a society of hundreds of millions living across an entire continent, our minds don’t understand that our friends, family and co-workers are not a representative sample of the actual “tribe” we are living in.
He may be mistaken about how high trust the society he lives in is.
Even if that is the case he is still mistaken about game theory. While the ‘high trust society’ you describe would encourage cooperation to the extent that hypocrisy does not serve as a substitute the justifications Desrtopa is given are in terms of game theory and TDT. It relies on acting as if other agents are TDT agents when they are not—an entirely different issue to dealing with punishment norms by ‘high trust’ agents.
We are in agreement on that. But this might better explain why, on second thought, I think it dosen’t matter, at least not in this sense, on the issue of whether educating people about global warming matters.
I think we may have been arguing against a less than most charitable interpretation of his argument, which I think isn’t that topical a discussion (even if it serves to clear up a few misconceptions). If the less than charitable argument is the interpretation he now thinks or even actually did intend, dosen’t seem that relevant to me.
“rah cooperation” I think in practice translates into “I think I live in a high trust enough society that its useful to use this signal to get people to ameliorate this tragedy of the commons situation I’m concerned about.”
He may be mistaken about how high trust the society he lives in is. This is something it is actually surprisingly easy to be wrong about, since our intuitions aren’t built for a society of hundreds of millions living across an entire continent, our minds don’t understand that our friends, family and co-workers are not a representative sample of the actual “tribe” we are living in.
Even if that is the case he is still mistaken about game theory. While the ‘high trust society’ you describe would encourage cooperation to the extent that hypocrisy does not serve as a substitute the justifications Desrtopa is given are in terms of game theory and TDT. It relies on acting as if other agents are TDT agents when they are not—an entirely different issue to dealing with punishment norms by ‘high trust’ agents.
Sure.
We are in agreement on that. But this might better explain why, on second thought, I think it dosen’t matter, at least not in this sense, on the issue of whether educating people about global warming matters.
I think we may have been arguing against a less than most charitable interpretation of his argument, which I think isn’t that topical a discussion (even if it serves to clear up a few misconceptions). If the less than charitable argument is the interpretation he now thinks or even actually did intend, dosen’t seem that relevant to me.
“rah cooperation” I think in practice translates into “I think I live in a high trust enough society that its useful to use this signal to get people to ameliorate this tragedy of the commons situation I’m concerned about.”