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10 Post author: James_Miller 20 July 2014 06:36PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 21 July 2014 11:11:57PM 8 points [-]

Hopefully it's not too much of a stretch to say that we should play the game in the same way that the best program would play it.

Should we (humans) play like the best program that don't have access to each other's source code play it, or play like the best programs that do have access to each other's source code play it? I mean, figuratively we have some information about the other player's source code...

Comment author: Squark 22 July 2014 09:35:11AM 1 point [-]

I think that if we know about one another that we believe in playing like programs with access to each other's source when playing against opponents about which we know [QUINE], then we are justified to play like programs with access to each others source. :)