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    This regress of mutual anticipation is unbounded and has ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Mutual common rationality produces indecision rather than a determinate optimal strategy in adversarial non-parametric decision problems.

    This regress of mutual anticipation is unbounded and has no stable fixed point.

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    However, if we now complicate the situation by adding a non-parametric element, it becomes more challenging. Suppose that you are a fugitive of some sort, and waiting on the other side of the river with a gun is your pursuer. She will catch and shoot you, let us suppose, only if she waits at the bridge you try to cross; otherwise, you will escape. As you reason through your choice of bridge, it occurs to you that she is over there trying to anticipate your reasoning. It will seem that, surely, c

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