Anyways!  Once the rewards have been handed out -

"So I realized, after the experiment had already started, that I'd failed to spell out some aspects of the experiment that a dath ilani would know just from ambient culture, but you had no reasonable way of deducing yourselves.  For which I apologize."

"What I failed to spell out was that, in the context of us already being talking about purely selfish agents, if I tell you to only try to get as many coppers for yourself as possible, what I obviously-to-a-dath-ilani mean is that you should roleplay an ideal-agent whose utilityfunction contains literally nothing but the number of coppers it gets.  It's not just that you're roleplaying an agent that doesn't care about the other player.  The agent you're roleplaying also doesn't care enough about Law or Asmodeanism that it has access to the cheap public commitment mechanism of making a promise on its Law or saying that the agreement is an Asmodean compact."

"Some of you Defected anyways, though, so not all was lost in illustrating the underlying problem.  In fact, if you exactly roleplay a purely selfish agent that also cares nothing about having a Lawful alignment in the Golarion sense, that only embodies the Law of obtaining the most coppers, the problem is not meant to be solvable at the levels of Law you currently have."

"Within the conversations I overheard, Asmodia had the sharpest sense of what was missing; Ione was the one who got furthest in constructing pieces of what a dath ilani would call the correct solution."

"Also to spell out something where I can't remember if I was explicit enough: you may not tell anyone else what you wrote down, nor reveal what rewards you received, ever.  You're free to talk about all the arguments you used, but not say what you wrote at the end, or what payoff you got.  The idea is to minimize the extent to which people might be non-self-endorsedly concerned about their reputations, because that concern makes it harder for them to roleplay the selfish agent.  Also something else a dath ilani would know from ambient culture, by the time they were playing games like this; again I apologize if I didn't spell that properly."

"You are now free to discuss among yourselves."

Anyways!  Once the rewards have been handed out -

"So I realized, after the experiment had already started, that I'd failed to spell out some aspects of the experiment that a dath ilani would know just from ambient culture, but you had no reasonable way of deducing yourselves.  For which I apologize."

"What I failed to spell out was that, in the context of us already being talking about purely selfish agents, if I tell you to only try to get as many coppers for yourself as possible, what I obviously-to-a-dath-ilani mean is that you should roleplay an ideal-agent whose utilityfunction contains literally nothing but the number of coppers it gets.  It's not just that you're roleplaying an agent that doesn't care about the other player.  The agent you're roleplaying also doesn't care enough about Law or Asmodeanism that it has access to the cheap public commitment mechanism of making a promise on its Law or saying that the agreement is an Asmodean compact."

"Some of you Defected anyways, though, so not all was lost in illustrating the underlying problem.  In fact, if you exactly roleplay a purely selfish agent that also cares nothing about having a Lawful alignment in the Golarion sense, that only embodies the Law of obtaining the most coppers, the problem is not meant to be solvable at the levels of Law you currently have."

"Within the conversations I overheard, Asmodia had the sharpest sense of what was missing; Ione was the one who got furthest in constructing pieces of what a dath ilani would call the correct solution."

"Also to spell out something where I can't remember if I was explicit enough: you may not tell anyone else what you wrote down, nor reveal what rewards you received, ever.  You're free to talk about all the arguments you used, but not say what you wrote at the end, or what payoff you got.  The idea is to minimize the extent to which people might be non-self-endorsedly concerned about their reputations, because that concern makes it harder for them to roleplay the selfish agent.  Also something else a dath ilani would know from ambient culture, by the time they were playing games like this; again I apologize."

"You are now free to discuss among yourselves."

Anyways!  Once the rewards have been handed out -

"So I realized, after the experiment had already started, that I'd failed to spell out some aspects of the experiment that a dath ilani would know just from ambient culture, but you had no reasonable way of deducing yourselves.  For which I apologize."

"What I failed to spell out was that, in the context of us already being talking about purely selfish agents, if I tell you to only try to get as many coppers for yourself as possible, what I obviously-to-a-dath-ilani mean is that you should roleplay an ideal-agent whose utilityfunction contains literally nothing but the number of coppers it gets.  It's not just that you're roleplaying an agent that doesn't care about the other player.  The agent you're roleplaying also doesn't care enough about Law or Asmodeanism that it has access to the cheap public commitment mechanism of making a promise on its Law or saying that the agreement is an Asmodean compact."

"Some of you Defected anyways, though, so not all was lost in illustrating the underlying problem.  In fact, if you exactly roleplay a purely selfish agent that also cares nothing about having a Lawful alignment in the Golarion sense, that only embodies the Law of obtaining the most coppers, the problem is not meant to be solvable at the levels of Law you currently have."

"Within the conversations I overheard, Asmodia had the sharpest sense of what was missing; Ione was the one who got furthest in constructing pieces of what a dath ilani would call the correct solution."

"Also to spell out something where I can't remember if I was explicit enough: you may not tell anyone else what you wrote down, nor reveal what rewards you received, ever.  You're free to talk about all the arguments you used, but not say what you wrote at the end, or what payoff you got.  The idea is to minimize the extent to which people might be non-self-endorsedly concerned about their reputations, because that concern makes it harder for them to roleplay the selfish agent.  Also something else a dath ilani would know from ambient culture, by the time they were playing games like this; again I apologize."

"You are now free to discuss."