Ah, okay. I went downstairs for a minute and thought to myself, “Well, the only way I get what he’s saying is if we go up a level and assume that the given utilities are not simply changing, but are changing according to some sort of particular rule.”
Congratulations on good thinking and attitude :)
Does that make sense?
Yes, I get that. What I meant to suggest to you in the broader picture, is that this “tremble” might be evolution’s way to crudely approximate a fully rational agent, who makes decisions based on VOI.
So it’s not necessarily detrimental to us. Sometimes it might well be.
The main takeaway from all that I have said is it that replacing your intuition with “let’s always take option A because it’s the rational thing to do” just doesn’t do the trick when you play multiple games (as is often the case in real life).
Congratulations on good thinking and attitude :)
Yes, I get that. What I meant to suggest to you in the broader picture, is that this “tremble” might be evolution’s way to crudely approximate a fully rational agent, who makes decisions based on VOI.
So it’s not necessarily detrimental to us. Sometimes it might well be.
The main takeaway from all that I have said is it that replacing your intuition with “let’s always take option A because it’s the rational thing to do” just doesn’t do the trick when you play multiple games (as is often the case in real life).