These two domains seen to capture the twin aspects of my favorite signaling topic, flirtation. “Cheap talk” is where you try and display your attractive qualities. “Bayesian persuasion” is where you reveal information, often non-verbally, in order to get someone to escalate, back off, change their tactics, and so on.
I think some of the confusion with signaling arises from the fact that the labels aren’t very intuitive and that these two domains are easy to either conflate, or focus on one at the expense of the other.
These two domains seen to capture the twin aspects of my favorite signaling topic, flirtation. “Cheap talk” is where you try and display your attractive qualities. “Bayesian persuasion” is where you reveal information, often non-verbally, in order to get someone to escalate, back off, change their tactics, and so on.
I think some of the confusion with signaling arises from the fact that the labels aren’t very intuitive and that these two domains are easy to either conflate, or focus on one at the expense of the other.
Sorry, I think that’s a misunderstanding. I will edit the part about cheap talk.