Tyler Cowen
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May 29th, 2023
- paper on Aumann agreement by Tyler Cowen
- > We review literatures on agreeing to disagree and on the rationality of differing priors, in
order to evaluate the honesty of typical disagreements. A robust result is that honest
truth-seeking agents with common priors should not knowingly disagree. Typical
disagreement seems explainable by a combination of random belief influences and by
priors that tell each person that he reasons better than others. When criticizing others,
however, people seem to uphold rationality standards that disapprove of such selffavoring priors. This suggests that typical disagreements are dishonest. We conclude by
briefly considering how one might try to become more honest when disagreeing