Well, yeah, kind of, that’s one way to look at it. Reformulate the question like this: what would CDT do if that communication channel were available? What general precommitment for future situations would CDT adopt and publish? That’s the question TDT people are trying to solve.
what would CDT do if that communication channel were available?
The simplest answer that moves this conversation forward would be “It would pretend to be a TDT agent that keeps its commitments, whenever that act of deception is beneficial to it. It would keep accurate statistics on how often agents claiming to be TDT agents actually are TDT agents, and adjust its priors accordingly.”
Now it is your turn to explain why this strategy violates the rules, whereas your invention of a deception-free channel did not.
Well, yeah, kind of, that’s one way to look at it. Reformulate the question like this: what would CDT do if that communication channel were available? What general precommitment for future situations would CDT adopt and publish? That’s the question TDT people are trying to solve.
The simplest answer that moves this conversation forward would be “It would pretend to be a TDT agent that keeps its commitments, whenever that act of deception is beneficial to it. It would keep accurate statistics on how often agents claiming to be TDT agents actually are TDT agents, and adjust its priors accordingly.”
Now it is your turn to explain why this strategy violates the rules, whereas your invention of a deception-free channel did not.