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My first attempt: bad faith is the operating assumption that a counterparty is not as interested in the truth as you are, which therefore justifies deceptive practices on your part
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The essence of bad faith is to use good faith to delay detection of cheating. This can come when the punishment for cheating will be less or deferred enough to justify the upside. Or more interestingly when you pretend to play one game while actually playing another.
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Bad faith treats true beliefs instrumentally. Truth is useful in defining how you can affect other agents’ beliefs (to your benefit) without being revealed as a liar. You need to be able to accurate reference past actions & others’ beliefs, so it’s more constrained than bullshit.
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a simulacra of yourself, put forth to induce the other into playing game A, while you play game B. most useful when the rules of the games differ meaningfully and the gap confers an advantage
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