[EDIT:] Although I would be a bit more general: regardless of red rooms: if you have several actors, even if they necessarily make the same decision they have to analyze the global picture. The only situation when the agent should be allowed to make the simplified subjective Bayesian decision table analysis if he is the only actor (no copies, etc. It is easy to construct simple decision problems without “red rooms”: Where each of the actors have some control over the outcome and none of them can make the analysis for itself only but have to buid a model of the whole situation to make the globally optimal decision.)
However, I did not imply in any way that the penalty matters. (At least, as long as the agents are sane and don’t start to flip non-logical coins) The global analysis of the payoff may clearly disregard the penalty case if it’s impossible for that specific protocol. The only requirement is that the expected value calculation must be made protocol by protocol basis.
Agreed 100%.
[EDIT:] Although I would be a bit more general: regardless of red rooms: if you have several actors, even if they necessarily make the same decision they have to analyze the global picture. The only situation when the agent should be allowed to make the simplified subjective Bayesian decision table analysis if he is the only actor (no copies, etc. It is easy to construct simple decision problems without “red rooms”: Where each of the actors have some control over the outcome and none of them can make the analysis for itself only but have to buid a model of the whole situation to make the globally optimal decision.)
However, I did not imply in any way that the penalty matters. (At least, as long as the agents are sane and don’t start to flip non-logical coins) The global analysis of the payoff may clearly disregard the penalty case if it’s impossible for that specific protocol. The only requirement is that the expected value calculation must be made protocol by protocol basis.