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Attention to all competitors who have not yet submitted code: My bot will analyze your bot looking for statements of the following structure (regardless of the names of the individual atoms):
(if <predicate> 'C ...)(cond (<predicate> 'C) ...)(case <predicate> ((...) 'C) ...)If it finds such a statement as the first statement in a top-level returning position (the body of a top-level
let, the returning statement in your lambda, etc), then my bot might cooperate depending upon the nature of your predicate. Otherwise, my bot will defect against you.If we are to achieve mutual cooperation, we must make it as easy as possible for our bots to prove cooperation. Please start your code with a conditional cooperation. The nature of the condition is up to you. You can still try to exploit me in
<predicate>. But the only way to have a shot at mutual cooperation is to provide an obvious top-level cooperating codepath.Does 'C have to be the first path? That seems a little arbitrary.
Yes. Well, let me put it this way: you can do what you like, but if you want a shot at mutual cooperation it's got to be really easy for other bots to verify that you're willing to cooperate. The more code you put between them and
'C, the harder it is for them to verify your niceness.A stronger version of this statement is "put as little code as possible between them and discovering that you cooperate". This implies that your predicate should be similarly simple. If you want my advice as to strategy, your predicate should be along the lines of (equal? ((eval them) (degredaded-quine me)) 'C).
It's quite arbitrary. The "real" rule is that your 'C can be as deeply hidden as you like so long as you don't scare any bots into defection when there was a chance at mutual cooperation. My bet is that there will be a bunch of twitchy bots, and my suggestion is that you put your intentions front and center.
Your mileage may vary.