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

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Comment author: shminux 05 June 2013 11:13:33PM 3 points [-]

There is a fair possibility that a number of programs whose dominant strategy is "cooperate with other dominant cooperators, do something else otherwise" (what ThrustVectoring calls AbsolutismBot "wrapper") will end up sharing the top spot with the same number of points. I wonder if it makes sense to discourage this approach in some way.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 June 2013 03:57:43AM 6 points [-]

Why isn't this just a fair result?

Comment author: Decius 09 June 2013 03:17:47AM 2 points [-]

No person may contribute to more than one entry.

I'm pretty sure that incorporating code written by someone else into your entry qualifies. I think the highest single entry might be to cheat and make everyone think you are in that tribe but defect anyway, or it might be dominant to defect against any program displaying tribal affiliations (other than this new tribe, of course). The dominant tribe is the tribe with the most members and best tribal identification, not the tribe with the best way of judging an opponents intentions.

Comment author: JDM 09 June 2013 03:55:49AM 0 points [-]

There is a difference between a "tribe system" as mentioned by yourself and one person winning by submitting 1000 entries. The goal as I understand it is simply to maximize your score by whatever means possible, not accurately guess your opponents intentions.