Andreas_Giger comments on Prisoner's dilemma tournament results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Andreas_Giger 09 July 2013 09:38:58PM 13 points [-]

A tournament like this would be much more interesting if it involved multiple generations. Here, the results heavily depended upon the pool of submitted strategies, regardless of their actual competitiveness, while a multiple-generations tournament would measure success as performance against other successful strategies.