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This makes me think of Narratives and Pseudosecrets: https://www.michaeldempsey.me/blog/2019/11/19/narratives-pseudosecrets/

There’s a similar sense where a stable meta is where people have to believe that other people don’t understand the meta (otherwise they would think the meta is priced in).

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Interesting idea, I suppose there are different flavours of stable meta games. I’d argue that a stable meta is one with a persistent underlying mechanism (as per the article). Moreover, I think you need others to understand the meta game, it’s hard to have a (3;3) dynamic when there is no counterparty to coordinate with.

Eventually the meta game cracks, but there is a considerable ‘Goldilocks’ period where one can (3;3) before defecting.

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Absolutely, Nash Equilibria in narrative space definitely makes sense as a stability condition!

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