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

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Comment author: skepsci 12 July 2013 03:51:24AM *  2 points [-]

I think a programming language that only allows primitive recursion is a bad idea. One common pattern (which I think we want to allow) was for bots to simulate their opponents, which entails the ability to simulate arbitrary valid code. This would not be possible in a language which restricts to primitive recursion.