You are right, I used the word ‘cooperation’ in the informal sense of ‘does not want to destroy me’. I fully admit that it is hard to formalize this concept, but if it says noncooperating and the game theoretic definition says cooperating, I prefer my definition. :) A possible problem I see with this game theoretic framework is that in real life, the agents themselves set up the situation where cooperation/defect occurs. As an example: the PM navigates humanity into a PD situation where our minimal payoff is ‘all humans dead’ and our maximal payoff is ‘half of humanity dead’, and then it cooperates.
I bumped into a question when I tried to make sense of all this. I have looked up the definition of PM at the wiki. The entry is quite nicely written, but I couldn’t find the answer to a very obvious question: How soon does the PM want to see results in its PMing project? There is no mention of time-based discounting. Can I assume that PMing is a very long-term project, where the PM has a set deadline, say, 10 billion years from now, and its actual utility function is the number of paperclips at the exact moment of the deadline?
You are right, I used the word ‘cooperation’ in the informal sense of ‘does not want to destroy me’. I fully admit that it is hard to formalize this concept, but if it says noncooperating and the game theoretic definition says cooperating, I prefer my definition. :) A possible problem I see with this game theoretic framework is that in real life, the agents themselves set up the situation where cooperation/defect occurs. As an example: the PM navigates humanity into a PD situation where our minimal payoff is ‘all humans dead’ and our maximal payoff is ‘half of humanity dead’, and then it cooperates.
I bumped into a question when I tried to make sense of all this. I have looked up the definition of PM at the wiki. The entry is quite nicely written, but I couldn’t find the answer to a very obvious question: How soon does the PM want to see results in its PMing project? There is no mention of time-based discounting. Can I assume that PMing is a very long-term project, where the PM has a set deadline, say, 10 billion years from now, and its actual utility function is the number of paperclips at the exact moment of the deadline?