Well if I say: “I will build a hot-air balloon” then it’s reasonable to interpret that as agreeing to the rule “I have to build a hot-air balloon”, so if I don’t, I’m cheating.
And then it’s reasonable to extend that to other kinds of statements, like “I built a hot-air balloon”
Speech in Diplomacy, it seems, is not quite real speech. The default position is that speech is true.
Well if I say: “I will build a hot-air balloon” then it’s reasonable to interpret that as agreeing to the rule “I have to build a hot-air balloon”, so if I don’t, I’m cheating.
That doesn’t seem reasonable to me, actually. I interpret it as ‘I intend to build a hot-air balloon’, which is much weaker evidence about future world-states even if it’s true. (It’s also stronger evidence about current world-states.)
The default position is that speech is true.
This strikes me as naive. In my experience, most people don’t lie without a reason to do so, but also most people will lie when they do have such a reason, and such reasons are fairly common. Our society is built on that assumption, in some ways, even—it’s practically required that one make up an excuse to leave a conversation with an annoying person rather than tell them that you don’t want to talk to them, for example.
Well if I say: “I will build a hot-air balloon” then it’s reasonable to interpret that as agreeing to the rule “I have to build a hot-air balloon”, so if I don’t, I’m cheating.
It doesn’t, because rule contravention is not the sole sufficient condition of cheating. Cheating involved 1) breaking rules that 2) others are following for 3) advantage whilst 4) disguising the fact.
Well if I say: “I will build a hot-air balloon” then it’s reasonable to interpret that as agreeing to the rule “I have to build a hot-air balloon”, so if I don’t, I’m cheating.
And then it’s reasonable to extend that to other kinds of statements, like “I built a hot-air balloon”
Speech in Diplomacy, it seems, is not quite real speech. The default position is that speech is true.
That doesn’t seem reasonable to me, actually. I interpret it as ‘I intend to build a hot-air balloon’, which is much weaker evidence about future world-states even if it’s true. (It’s also stronger evidence about current world-states.)
This strikes me as naive. In my experience, most people don’t lie without a reason to do so, but also most people will lie when they do have such a reason, and such reasons are fairly common. Our society is built on that assumption, in some ways, even—it’s practically required that one make up an excuse to leave a conversation with an annoying person rather than tell them that you don’t want to talk to them, for example.
It doesn’t, because rule contravention is not the sole sufficient condition of cheating. Cheating involved 1) breaking rules that 2) others are following for 3) advantage whilst 4) disguising the fact.