Great post. It’s too bad it didn’t get frontpage visibility.
Proposition: some kinds of agents don’t need to make object-level deals in advance. Especially for evidential/acausal reasons, or possibly because they made a meta-deal in the past. In the future, they do a bunch of thinking and then an insurance company pays everyone whose houses burned down (and everyone else pays the insurance company a little).
Proposition (perhaps based on controversial intuitions that various attitudes are objective/convergent): the system above is preferable to locking in low-level deals on e.g. power-sharing. But it’s fine to make such deals as long as we clarify that if the galaxy-brained stuff works out, we’ll follow that instead. (And if you feel confident that the galaxy-brained stuff will work out without need to coordinate in advance, you should still endorse deals to e.g. reduce conflict between agents who don’t share your view.)
some deals require uncertainty
Skill issue? (But no guarantee that all agents will be high-skill by the first crucial time.)
Surprised you didn’t bring this up. Curious what you think.
Great post. It’s too bad it didn’t get frontpage visibility.
Proposition: some kinds of agents don’t need to make object-level deals in advance. Especially for evidential/acausal reasons, or possibly because they made a meta-deal in the past. In the future, they do a bunch of thinking and then an insurance company pays everyone whose houses burned down (and everyone else pays the insurance company a little).
Proposition (perhaps based on controversial intuitions that various attitudes are objective/convergent): the system above is preferable to locking in low-level deals on e.g. power-sharing. But it’s fine to make such deals as long as we clarify that if the galaxy-brained stuff works out, we’ll follow that instead. (And if you feel confident that the galaxy-brained stuff will work out without need to coordinate in advance, you should still endorse deals to e.g. reduce conflict between agents who don’t share your view.)
Skill issue? (But no guarantee that all agents will be high-skill by the first crucial time.)
Surprised you didn’t bring this up. Curious what you think.