that doesn’t make any sense at all. ELIEZER knows how valuable they are to him. He’s rational enough that if he thinks about it he would realize there is an amount of dollars someone could pay him that would get him to reveal it, and it’s in his interest to be paid those dollars since by definition it’s a profitable transaction. And it can only take place if he says what the price is.
that doesn’t make any sense at all. ELIEZER knows how valuable they are to him. He’s rational enough that if he thinks about it he would realize there is an amount of dollars someone could pay him that would get him to reveal it, and it’s in his interest to be paid those dollars since by definition it’s a profitable transaction. And it can only take place if he says what the price is.