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Acausal trade

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Acausal trade is a speculative form of cooperation between two agents who, despite being unable to causally affect or communicate with each other, can each benefit by predicting what the other wants and doing it.

Further reading

Fox, Joshua et al. (2012) Acausal trade, LessWrong Wiki, March 12 (updated 21 September 2021).

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