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

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Comment author: wedrifid 06 September 2011 02:44:27PM *  1 point [-]

In the evolutionary tournament... DefectBots will kill off anyone they're paired with, but all it takes is two strategies that can cooperate for 90 or so turns and the next generation will be comprised of something like one-third those two and two-thirds DefectBot, which will rapidly favour cooperating bots.

'Few' was intentionally understated. Enough DefectBots just win.