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

101 Post author: prase 06 September 2011 12:46AM

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 08 September 2011 09:25:33PM 0 points [-]

If the DuncanBot detects a source code different from its own, it runs that source code. So a DuncanBot looks to any CliqueBot like a member of it's clique.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 09 September 2011 12:23:22AM 2 points [-]

I meant what happens when a DucanBot meats a DicanBot that does the same thing but has trivial cosmetic differences in its source code?

Comment author: shinoteki 08 September 2011 09:51:13PM 2 points [-]

A piece of code that runs a piece of source code does not thereby become that piece of source code.

Comment author: DuncanS 08 September 2011 10:58:22PM 2 points [-]

That may well be right - a cliquebot may well decide I'm not in its clique, and defect. And I, running its source code, will decide that my counterparty IS in the clique, and cooperate. Not a good outcome.

Clearly I need to modify my algorithm so that I run the other bot's code without bothering to analyse it - and have it play against not its actual opponent, but me, running it.