> That was me, in Re: [2] Freedom or death. I suggested a non-Hofstadterian
> solution to the Power vs. Power Prisoner's Dilemna. I also wondered if the
> Powers would use game theory at all, when deciding whether to respect our
> opinions.
It might be that Powers destabilize some games (secong-guessing each
other indefinitely or coming up with utterly different strategies),
but in most simple games they would likely do better than
less-than-rational current humans, and instead make the system very
predictable.
> I'm not sure that game theory applies to posthumans. It's based on
> rather tenuous assumptions about lack of knowledge and conflicting goals.
Remember that even Powers cannot know everything. If you can simulate
your oppnent quite well, then things will get interesting, but if you
have only limited information then game theory still applies.
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