darius comments on Prisoner's Dilemma (with visible source code) Tournament - Less Wrong

47 Post author: AlexMennen 07 June 2013 08:30AM

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Comment author: bluej100 07 June 2013 06:37:25PM 13 points [-]

The quine requirement seems to me to introduce non-productive complexity. If file reading is disallowed, why not just pass the program its own source code as well as its opponent's?

Comment author: darius 08 June 2013 02:21:21AM 5 points [-]

Yes -- in my version of this you do get passed your own source code as a convenience.