This strikes me as a particularly large limitation. If you don’t have any way of creating meaningful weightings of utility between agents then you can’t get anything meaningful out. If you’re allowed to play with that free parameter then you can simply say “I’m not a utility monster, this genuinely impacts me more than you [because I said so!]” and your actual outcomes aren’t constrained at all.
This just isn’t what I want to use the definition for. It’s meant to be descriptive, not prescriptive.
Similarly, while other definitions of “defection” also exist, I’m interested in the sense I outlined in the post. In particular, I’m not interested in any proposed definition that labels defection in PD as not-defection.
This just isn’t what I want to use the definition for. It’s meant to be descriptive, not prescriptive.
Similarly, while other definitions of “defection” also exist, I’m interested in the sense I outlined in the post. In particular, I’m not interested in any proposed definition that labels defection in PD as not-defection.