Acausal trade
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Acausal trade is a speculative form of cooperation between agents who cannot causally affect or communicate or affectwith each other, but can predict each others' decisions sufficiently accurately to allow cooperation.act in ways that benefit one another.
Further reading
Fox, Joshua et al. (2012) Acausal trade, LessWrong Wiki, March 12 (updated 21 September 2021).
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MichaelA🔸 v1.1.0 (+86/-11) Added text to more clearly distinguish this from causal trade (which can also include instances where agents can predict each others' decisions well) 0
Acausal trade is a speculative form of cooperation between agents who cannot causally communicate or affect each other, but can predict each others' decisions sufficiently accurately.accurately to allow cooperation.
Acausal trade is a speculative form of cooperation between agents who can predict each others' decisions sufficiently accurately.
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