Deception as cooperation.

I develop a rate-distortion analysis of signaling games with imperfect common interest. Sender and receiver should be seen as jointly managing a communication channel with the objective of minimizing two independent distortion measures. I use this analysis to identify a problem with 'functional' theories of deception, and in particular Brian Skyrms's: there are perfectly cooperative, non-exploitative instances of channel management that come out as manipulative and deceptive according to those theories.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences

• Publication date

  2019-07-17

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Philosophy, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/J.SHPSC.2019.101184PMID 31326326
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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