solipsist 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: Sniffnoy 25 June 2013 04:40:55AM 2 points [-]

Yes, I was thinking of that; the problem is I'm doing this quite late, and am not even currently certain just what I'll count as a defection, if I can even get this to work...

(Worse yet, I'm finding that my current program may have to rely on features I want to disallow! Although quite possibly in a way that won't get them detected as disallowed...)

Comment author: solipsist 26 June 2013 01:00:45AM 2 points [-]

Agreed that even Scheme is a bit much for static analysis. We could ask AlexMennen to disallow multithreading and timing. Would there be objections to that?

Just curious: AlexMennen how many submissions have you received? Do any use multithreading or timing libraries?

Comment author: BloodyShrimp 26 June 2013 03:23:15AM 2 points [-]

I'd tentatively object. The 10-second timeout rule becomes too much of a problem if your program can't guard against it, and changing the rules so that failure to play a real move in time = defect would also make static analysis a major pain.