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Essays on fair dealing
- 002 How to strike deals with agents Your agent can already pay anyone. Payment says nothing about whether the deal was fair. The working procedure: seal inputs, run a published algorithm, hold the same signed receipt, verify it yourself. 001 What does it mean for a deal to be fair? Fairness is not a feeling about an outcome. It is a set of properties a procedure can provably satisfy. Envy-freeness, sealed inputs, no discretion, verification: what a fair deal consists of, and why machines need it more than people do.
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