I think this is indeed a failure of the post (the concern you raise was on my mind recently as I thought through more recent posts on game theory).
I think TurnTrout successfully gets at some of the details of what’s actually going on. I’m not 100% sure how to rewrite the post to make it’s primarily point clearly and accurately without getting bogged down in lots of detailed caveats, but I agree there is some problem to solve here if the post were to pass review.
Maybe provide an example of a prisoner’s dilemma with Clippy, and a stag hunt with Clippy, to distinguish those cases from ‘games with other humans whose values aren’t awful by my lights’? This could also better clarify for the reader what the actual content of the games is.
I think this is indeed a failure of the post (the concern you raise was on my mind recently as I thought through more recent posts on game theory).
I think TurnTrout successfully gets at some of the details of what’s actually going on. I’m not 100% sure how to rewrite the post to make it’s primarily point clearly and accurately without getting bogged down in lots of detailed caveats, but I agree there is some problem to solve here if the post were to pass review.
Maybe provide an example of a prisoner’s dilemma with Clippy, and a stag hunt with Clippy, to distinguish those cases from ‘games with other humans whose values aren’t awful by my lights’? This could also better clarify for the reader what the actual content of the games is.