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13 Post author: Eneasz 22 May 2012 04:25PM

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Comment author: faul_sname 22 May 2012 11:24:45PM 2 points [-]

Expected payout for one agent increases even more if they can convince everyone else to cooperate while they defect. This is the game you want to keep the other agents from playing, and while TDT works when all the other agents use a similar decision strategy, it fails in situations where they don't. Which is exactly the problem Eneasz was getting at.