tetronian2 comments on Open Thread, Jul. 20 - Jul. 26, 2015 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: MrMind 20 July 2015 06:55AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Article Navigation

Comments (202)
Tags: open_thread

Comments (202)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: tetronian2 21 July 2015 12:57:27AM 11 points [-]

Is anyone interested in another iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament? It has been nearly a year since the last one. Suggestions are also welcome.

Comment author: tetronian2 26 July 2015 04:33:38PM *  0 points [-]

So, to follow up on this, I'm going to announce the 2015 tournament in early August. Everything will be the same except for the following:

  • Random-length rounds rather than fixed length
  • Single elimination instead of round-robin elimination
  • More tooling (QuickCheck-based test suite to make it easier to test bots, and some other things)

Edit: I am also debating whether to make the number of available simulations per round fixed rather than relying on a timer.

I also played around with a version in which bots could view each other's abstract syntax tree (represented as a GADT), but I figured that writing bots in Haskell was already enough of a trivial inconvenience for people without involving a special DSL, so I dropped that line of experimentation.

Powered by Reddit Powered by Reddit