Wei Dai:
Given these incentives, why would anyone facing a Superhappy in negotiation not accept and then cheat? I don’t see any plausible way in which this morality/negotiation strategy could have become a common one in Superhappy society.
Perhaps they evolved to honestly accept, and then find overwhelming reasons to cheat later on, and this is their substitute for deception.
Maybe they also evolved to give not-quite acceptable options, which the other party will accept, and then cheat on to some degree.
So the true ending might be a typical superhappy negotiation, if their real solution were something we would represent as “We absolutely have to deal with the babyeaters, You childabusers are awful but we’ll let you exist unmodified as long as you never, ever sextalk us again.”
And because they evolved expecting a certain amount of cheating, This consciously manifested itself as the unacceptable offer they made.
Wei Dai: Given these incentives, why would anyone facing a Superhappy in negotiation not accept and then cheat? I don’t see any plausible way in which this morality/negotiation strategy could have become a common one in Superhappy society.
Perhaps they evolved to honestly accept, and then find overwhelming reasons to cheat later on, and this is their substitute for deception. Maybe they also evolved to give not-quite acceptable options, which the other party will accept, and then cheat on to some degree.
So the true ending might be a typical superhappy negotiation, if their real solution were something we would represent as “We absolutely have to deal with the babyeaters, You childabusers are awful but we’ll let you exist unmodified as long as you never, ever sextalk us again.”
And because they evolved expecting a certain amount of cheating, This consciously manifested itself as the unacceptable offer they made.
I think that they possibly evolved to have Untranslatable 2 whenever they disagreed which would perhaps resolve this.
Being unable to do so with another species, they expected a species which cannot have untranslatable 2 to be unable to come to a rational agreement.