EngineerofScience comments on The True Prisoner's Dilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: EngineerofScience 07 August 2015 06:20:46PM *  0 points [-]

I would say... defect! If all the computer cares about is sorting pebbles, then they will cooperate, because both results under cooperate have more paperclips. This gives an oppurtunity to defect and get a result of (d,c) which is our favorite result.