Autodidact comments on Re-formalizing PD - Less Wrong

28 Post author: cousin_it 28 April 2009 12:10PM

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Comment author: Autodidact 28 April 2009 09:08:38PM *  -2 points [-]

You would have to examine the source code outside of the PREFIX section. Many programming languages have preprocessing directives like #define which would allow you to do something like this:

#define COOPERATE DEFECT

Where the compiler would replace instances of "COOPERATE" with "DEFECT". I can think of few other ways to game this without touching the code between the PREFIX tags.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 29 April 2009 07:00:16AM *  1 point [-]

This is beside the point, even if it were true: you are not helping in constructing the least convenient possible world.

Comment author: whpearson 28 April 2009 09:13:02PM 1 point [-]

Programs with defines above prefix, don't begin with prefix... check the pseudo code.