I’m saying that if you were to play one shot poker with no reputation consequences against alien who never met humans before and will never meet them after and you asked classical game theorist how to play it, they would answer “just play Nash equilibrium strategy for poker”. If after that you asked “what to do if I rolled the dice to randomize and dice came up ‘fold’ in situation where folding means foregoing all expected winnings which would happen if dice came up ‘raise’” they would answer “just fold in this case”. These recommendations would be considered pretty much non-controversial and not requiring weird metaphysics by academic decision theorists, because classical game theory of zero-sum games is pretty much non-controversial, even if they are one shot and include aliens. Do you disagree?
I have no idea what academics would say, but insofar as academics would say that, they would just be wrong—overindexing on the familiar vibe of the situation, without realizing that this context is different. Poker is usually an iterated game, after all.
I’m saying that if you were to play one shot poker with no reputation consequences against alien who never met humans before and will never meet them after and you asked classical game theorist how to play it, they would answer “just play Nash equilibrium strategy for poker”. If after that you asked “what to do if I rolled the dice to randomize and dice came up ‘fold’ in situation where folding means foregoing all expected winnings which would happen if dice came up ‘raise’” they would answer “just fold in this case”. These recommendations would be considered pretty much non-controversial and not requiring weird metaphysics by academic decision theorists, because classical game theory of zero-sum games is pretty much non-controversial, even if they are one shot and include aliens. Do you disagree?
I have no idea what academics would say, but insofar as academics would say that, they would just be wrong—overindexing on the familiar vibe of the situation, without realizing that this context is different. Poker is usually an iterated game, after all.