CredibleCommitments.WTF (http://crediblecommitments.wtf/) is a series of open discussions on the WIP work of exploring practical implementations of cooperative AI on top of cryptoeconomic/cryptographic credible commitment devices. We specifically focus our discussion on concrete, approachable ways to study and realize commitments for coordination between algorithmic agents. This event is to bring together facilitate discussions between pragmatic commitment device researchers and cooperative AI researchers to better map out the directions of this collaboration. 

We focus on answering two questions:

1. How we can better formalize and study the properties of crypto commitment devices and the coordination games mediated by it via the lens of commitment games? Specifically, what kind of concrete simple games we can study to illustrate the power of crypto commitment devices.

2. How can we better design blockchains (a technology for implementing commmitments) for coordination games with algorithmic agent participants (cooperative AI)? What are some benchmark games that we can devise for boostrapping? e.g., are there any simple games where we can observe what kind of behavior emerges when AIs play games with the presence of a crypto commitment device.

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CredibleCommitments.WTF | David C. Parkes - Illustrations on Commitment in Decentralized Systems