romeostevensit comments on The hostile telepaths problem

[romeostevensit]

Agree with the approach with the caveat that some people in group 2 are naive cooperators and therefore second order defectors since they are suckers for group 1. Eg the person who will tell the truth to the Nazis out of mistaken theories of ethics or just behavioral conditioning.

[Matt Vincent]

I think that kind of person is included in group 1:

“People who are adversarial or untrustworthy [...] as representatives of the system on behalf of which they act”.