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I made a similar mistake, and randomly generated defect.
Welp.
I think accidentally choosing defect is probably the best possible outcome in PD; you get all the advantages of defecting, whilst your decision process still acausally causes other people to cooperate.
It can get even better, assuming you put your moral reasoning aside.
What you could do, is to deliberately defect and then publicly announce to everyone that it was a result of random chance.
If you are concerned about lying to others, then I concur, that accdientally choosing to defect is best of both worlds.
In the literal PD scenario, I imagine the subsequent converation would go:
"You accidentally informed on us? Okay, we'll accidentally shoot your legs off."