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 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!