Hi! I just wanted to mention that I really appreciate this sequence. I’ve been having lots of related thoughts, and it’s great to see a solid theoretical grounding for them. I find the notion that bargaining can happen across lots of different domains—different people or subagents, different states of the world, maybe different epistemic states—particularly useful. And this particular post presents the only argument for rejecting a VNM axiom I’ve ever found compelling. I think there’s a decent chance that this sequence will become really foundational to my thinking.
I don’t know that I have much “solid theoretical grounding.” From my perspective, this sequence is me putting together a bunch of related concepts (and thus doing some of the hard parts of noticing that they are related), but not really giving good theoretical grounding. In fact, I was putting off posting this sequence, so I could have time to develop theoretical grounding, but then gave up on that and just posted what I had in response to the community wanting orientation around FTX.
Hi! I just wanted to mention that I really appreciate this sequence. I’ve been having lots of related thoughts, and it’s great to see a solid theoretical grounding for them. I find the notion that bargaining can happen across lots of different domains—different people or subagents, different states of the world, maybe different epistemic states—particularly useful. And this particular post presents the only argument for rejecting a VNM axiom I’ve ever found compelling. I think there’s a decent chance that this sequence will become really foundational to my thinking.
Thanks!
I don’t know that I have much “solid theoretical grounding.” From my perspective, this sequence is me putting together a bunch of related concepts (and thus doing some of the hard parts of noticing that they are related), but not really giving good theoretical grounding. In fact, I was putting off posting this sequence, so I could have time to develop theoretical grounding, but then gave up on that and just posted what I had in response to the community wanting orientation around FTX.
Thanks for posting these, and I’m looking forward to the grounding posts should you find time.