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Robin Hanson Disagreement is unpredictable article Given common priors, no agent can publicly estimate a non-zero sign for the difference between his estimate and another agent’s future estimate. Thus rational agents cannot publicly anticipate the direction in which other agents will disagree with them.

Disagreement is unpredictable

Robin Hanson

Economics Letters, vol. 77, no. 3, 2002, pp. 365–369

Abstract

Given common priors, no agent can publicly estimate a non-zero sign for the difference between his estimate and another agent’s future estimate. Thus rational agents cannot publicly anticipate the direction in which other agents will disagree with them.

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