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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>spike<br><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>The game goes like this: a test subject is given 100 bucks. She must offer some of it to a second player, any amount she chooses. If the second player accepts, they second player gets the amount offered and the first gets whatever is left. If the second player refuses, then both players get nothing<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span>I thought of a cool experiment: we get some number of players, each kick in 100 bucks. Then each player gets to be the first player once and the second player once. Every pair of players gets to negotiate anonymously online, so an annoyed loser will never come to your office and whoop your ass<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span>COOL! Spike<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>OK cool, here’s my game. You arrange an Ultimatum match in the following way: anyone who wants to play buys two tickets, a first player and a second player, a hundred bucks for the pair. No one introduces herself or reveals any names, so the players are unknown. Half the tickets are sold in one location and half in the other. Now when we get about 10 players in each location, we have collected 2000 bucks and we are ready to play.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>A player comes into location A at some random time, and chooses a position, 1 or 2. If there is someone available at the other location with the opposite position ticket, they can play, neither player knowing who the other person is. It might be your boss! But she doesn’t know who you are, so the anonymity frees up the negotiation process, and allows them to shout obscenities at each other in all caps if they want. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The interesting part of this game is that if you play nice, you will probably at least break even: you offer 50 bucks as the player 1, take 40 as the player 2, and good chance at least 2 of the negotiations will break down, perhaps more, so you get your other 10 bucks from the 200 in the pot divided 20 ways. The players negotiate with anonymity, but everyone gets a hard copy of the transcript without identities after the fact, as a study guide for negotiations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Is there a way we could experiment with this somehow? Some of you realtime-chat hipsters, how could we set up a chat session to play this from home and somehow echo this off a remote site to negotiate realtime and insure anonymity? A lot of us have known each other for a long time: it would be fun to play for smaller stakes, say 10 bucks for the ticket pair, and see if we can figure out who wrote what. We could try to spoof the group, acting like each other, using a known person’s characteristic quirky sayings. For instance, if someone offers Anders 4 bucks, he might write “4 bucks, you greedy bastard, I aughta come to the next extro-schmooze and give you a whoopin! }8-[ No deal, we both go hungry! ” trying to fool us into thinking I wrote that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>That would be a totally hilarious kick!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>{8^D<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>As an experiment, how could we set up a play money version? As a second experiment, how could we set up a version where the identities of the players are revealed after all the “money” is transferred? Would the anonymous version differ from the ID open after the match version? We could recruit roommates and office colleagues who are unknown to us, in order to further confuse the issue. Cool!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>