Forgive me if I’m being dumb, but I still don’t understand. If two similar agents (not identical to avoid the clones argument) play the PD using your decision theory, how do they arrive at C,C? Even if agents’ algorithms are common knowledge, a naive attempt to simulate the other guy just falls into bottomless recursion as usual. Is the answer somehow encoded in “the most general precommitment”? What do the agents precommit to? How does Pareto optimality enter the scene?
Forgive me if I’m being dumb, but I still don’t understand. If two similar agents (not identical to avoid the clones argument) play the PD using your decision theory, how do they arrive at C,C? Even if agents’ algorithms are common knowledge, a naive attempt to simulate the other guy just falls into bottomless recursion as usual. Is the answer somehow encoded in “the most general precommitment”? What do the agents precommit to? How does Pareto optimality enter the scene?