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

32 Post author: AlexMennen 09 July 2013 08:50PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 11 July 2013 06:37:27AM 1 point [-]

well...I might have played Hawkbot instead; Hawkbot spends 9.999 seconds dithering before finally defecting, so it does insanely well against any opponent that tries to run it.

Anybody who runs the other program without an interrupt timer and so times out is, as you put it, "clearly insane". Hawkbot gets 1 against any sane opponent that tries to run it.

Comment author: BloodyShrimp 11 July 2013 07:03:58AM 1 point [-]

Forget sanity--if your opponent fails to play, the most you can get is one point. Hawkbot is awful.

Comment author: fractalman 11 July 2013 07:09:29PM *  0 points [-]

I reread the payoff matrix some time after posting that....and the defect-bot test was only the first in a series of tests I had planned out.