Do you think [playing in a rat race because it’s the most locally optimal for an individual thing to do while at the same advocating for abolishing the rat race] is an example of reformative hypocrisy?
Or even more broadly, defecting in a prisoner’s dilemma while exposing an interface that would allow cooperation with other like-minded players?
I’ve had this concept for many years and it hasn’t occurred to me to give it a name (How Stupid Not To Have Thought Of That) but if I tried to give it a name, I definitely wouldn’t call it a kind of hypocrisy.
It’s better but still not quite. When you play on two levels, sometimes the best strategy involves a pair of (level 1 and 2) substrategies that are seemingly opposites of each other. I don’t think there’s anything hypocritical about that.
Do you think [playing in a rat race because it’s the most locally optimal for an individual thing to do while at the same advocating for abolishing the rat race] is an example of reformative hypocrisy?
Or even more broadly, defecting in a prisoner’s dilemma while exposing an interface that would allow cooperation with other like-minded players?
I’ve had this concept for many years and it hasn’t occurred to me to give it a name (How Stupid Not To Have Thought Of That) but if I tried to give it a name, I definitely wouldn’t call it a kind of hypocrisy.
A “Short-term Honesty Sacrifice”, “Hypocrisy Gambit”, something like that?
It’s better but still not quite. When you play on two levels, sometimes the best strategy involves a pair of (level 1 and 2) substrategies that are seemingly opposites of each other. I don’t think there’s anything hypocritical about that.
Similarly, hedging is not hypocrisy.