AlexMennen 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: solipsist 09 June 2013 09:14:01PM 4 points [-]

Passing in the source code is not the same as quining. A program that is passed in its own source code can easily check to see it's been altered (e.g. by including a cryptographic signature in the source code). With quining, the program can be mutated without easy detection.

Comment author: AlexMennen 10 June 2013 08:41:40PM 2 points [-]

Thanks for pointing that out. Unless someone can convince me that this won't be a problem, I will not change the rule.