Ah ok, if the honesty vow takes precedence. I still think it’s a difficult one in edge cases, but I don’t see effective resolutions that do better than using vows 2 and 3 to decide on those.
I’m not sure what’s the difference between “set of vows” and “policy”?
The point isn’t in choosing “set of vows” over “policy”, but rather in choosing “I make the set of vows...” over “Everything I do will be according to...”. You’re able to make the set of vows (albeit implicitly), and the vows themselves will have the optimal amount of wiggle-room, achievability, flexibility, emphasis on good faith… built in.
To say “Everything I do will be according to...” seems to set the bar unachievably high, since it just won’t be true. You can aim in that direction, but your actions won’t even usually be optimal w.r.t. that policy. (thoughts on trying-to-try notwithstanding, I do think vows that are taken seriously should at least be realistically possible to achieve)
To put it another way, to get the “Everything I do...” formulation to be equivalent to the “I make the set of vows...” formulation, I think the former would need to be self-referential—i.e. something like ”… according to the policy which is the KS solution… given its inclusion in this vow”. That self-reference will insert the optimal degree of wiggle-room etc.
I think you need either the extra indirection or the self-reference (or I’m confused, which is always possible :)).
One way to interpret this is “I will do my best effort to follow the optimal policy”. On the other hand, when you’re optimizing for just your own utility function, one could argue that the “best effort” is exactly equal to the optimal policy once you take constraints and computational/logical uncertainty into account. On the third hand, perhaps for bargaining the case for identifying “best effort” and “optimal” is weaker. In practice, what’s important is that even if you followed a suboptimal policy for a while, there’s a well-defined way to return to optimal behavior. This is true for Nash bargaining (because of independence of irrelevant alternatives), less so for KS! Which is why I’m leaning towards switching to Nash. And if I fail to even make the best effort, there’s the clause about how to amend.
Ah ok, if the honesty vow takes precedence. I still think it’s a difficult one in edge cases, but I don’t see effective resolutions that do better than using vows 2 and 3 to decide on those.
The point isn’t in choosing “set of vows” over “policy”, but rather in choosing “I make the set of vows...” over “Everything I do will be according to...”. You’re able to make the set of vows (albeit implicitly), and the vows themselves will have the optimal amount of wiggle-room, achievability, flexibility, emphasis on good faith… built in.
To say “Everything I do will be according to...” seems to set the bar unachievably high, since it just won’t be true. You can aim in that direction, but your actions won’t even usually be optimal w.r.t. that policy. (thoughts on trying-to-try notwithstanding, I do think vows that are taken seriously should at least be realistically possible to achieve)
To put it another way, to get the “Everything I do...” formulation to be equivalent to the “I make the set of vows...” formulation, I think the former would need to be self-referential—i.e. something like ”… according to the policy which is the KS solution… given its inclusion in this vow”. That self-reference will insert the optimal degree of wiggle-room etc.
I think you need either the extra indirection or the self-reference (or I’m confused, which is always possible :)).
One way to interpret this is “I will do my best effort to follow the optimal policy”. On the other hand, when you’re optimizing for just your own utility function, one could argue that the “best effort” is exactly equal to the optimal policy once you take constraints and computational/logical uncertainty into account. On the third hand, perhaps for bargaining the case for identifying “best effort” and “optimal” is weaker. In practice, what’s important is that even if you followed a suboptimal policy for a while, there’s a well-defined way to return to optimal behavior. This is true for Nash bargaining (because of independence of irrelevant alternatives), less so for KS! Which is why I’m leaning towards switching to Nash. And if I fail to even make the best effort, there’s the clause about how to amend.