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

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Comment author: wubbles 11 July 2013 12:36:43AM 2 points [-]

How do we draw the line? Tit-for-Tat is very simple, yet does very well. Arguably before knowing how it performs it could be considered a troll.

Comment author: Andreas_Giger 11 July 2013 01:39:36AM 14 points [-]

Considering this was an experimental tournament, learning how certain strategies perform against others seems far more interesting to me than winning, and I can't imagine any strategy I would label as a troll submission. Even strategies solely designed to be obstacles are valid and valuable contributions, and the fact that random strategies skew the results is a fault of the tournament rules and not of the strategies themselves.