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

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

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Comment author: Decius 11 July 2013 05:34:29PM 2 points [-]

Why? In what circumstance would you ever be offered a choice to cooperate or compete with your concurrent self?

Comment author: wedrifid 12 July 2013 01:49:28PM 11 points [-]

Why? In what circumstance would you ever be offered a choice to cooperate or compete with your concurrent self?

Probably in a respectable fraction of the universes in which other agents have a copy of your source code.

Comment author: BloodyShrimp 18 July 2013 01:46:50AM 2 points [-]

This is the reason my bot attempted to recognize itself. Attention anyone who plays in a tournament that continues to use this bot pool: put the token LightninRoy in your source!

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 12 July 2013 12:11:17PM 1 point [-]

In Robin Hanson's em dystopia. :D

It seems fair that if I have to play against a copy of myself, then you have to play against two copies of myself (because it means the universe contains two instances of me). But make it millions, and then I play against approximately as much copies of myself as you do.

Comment author: Kawoomba 12 July 2013 01:27:04PM 0 points [-]

Good news: You win! :-)

Bad news: You lose! :-(

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 12 July 2013 01:55:44PM 1 point [-]

Best news: You cooperate. Twice! :D