Alexei comments on Prisoner's Dilemma Tournament Results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alexei 05 September 2011 08:22:21PM 12 points [-]

I just want to point out that it's probably not good to use this as basis to see if LessWrong improves performance in these games, because the strategy I submitted (and I suspect some other people) wasn't the best I could think of, it was just cute and simple. I did it because I got the feeling that this tournament was for fun, not for real competition or rationality measurement.

Comment author: XiXiDu 06 September 2011 03:30:17PM 7 points [-]

...the strategy I submitted (and I suspect some other people) wasn't the best I could think of, it was just cute and simple. I did it because I got the feeling that this tournament was for fun, not for real competition or rationality measurement.

But isn't this also true for the control group?

Comment author: Alexei 07 September 2011 01:32:32AM 1 point [-]

Yes, but if I tried my best, I think (or at least that's how the hypothesis would go) that I would do better than an average control group person who was trying their best.

Comment author: prase 06 September 2011 09:52:19AM 0 points [-]

Agreed.