alexflint comments on Re-formalizing PD - Less Wrong

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Comment author: alexflint 23 July 2009 09:32:50AM 0 points [-]

Very interesting indeed. Suppose we replaced "4. simulate the opponent's reaction to you" and instead had 4. Simulate the opponents reaction many times and learn the probability p with which they will defect. 5. If p < k then cooperate, else defect (for some constant k)

Game theory with machine learning, what do you think?

Comment author: cousin_it 23 July 2009 09:38:37AM *  0 points [-]

Maybe, but take care to terminate. If your program always starts out by simulating the opponent twice, it won't even cooperate against a copy of itself, going into an infinite binary tree of recursion instead.