I want to defect, but so does the clip-maximizer. Since we both know that, and assuming that it is of equal intelligence than me, which will make it see through any of my attempt of an offer that would enable me to defect, I would try to find a way to give us the incentives to cooperate. That is—I don’t believe we will be able to reach solution (D,C), so let’s try for the next best thing, which is (C,C).
How about placing a bomb on two piles of substance S and giving the remote for the human pile to the clipmaximizer and the remote for its pile to the humans? In this scenario, if the clipmaximizer tries to take the humans’ pieces of S, they destroy its share, thus enabling it to only have a maximum of two S, which is what it already has. Thus it doesn’t want to try to defect, and the same for the humans.
I want to defect, but so does the clip-maximizer. Since we both know that, and assuming that it is of equal intelligence than me, which will make it see through any of my attempt of an offer that would enable me to defect, I would try to find a way to give us the incentives to cooperate. That is—I don’t believe we will be able to reach solution (D,C), so let’s try for the next best thing, which is (C,C).
How about placing a bomb on two piles of substance S and giving the remote for the human pile to the clipmaximizer and the remote for its pile to the humans? In this scenario, if the clipmaximizer tries to take the humans’ pieces of S, they destroy its share, thus enabling it to only have a maximum of two S, which is what it already has. Thus it doesn’t want to try to defect, and the same for the humans.