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tetronian2 comments on Open thread, July 28 - August 3, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: James_Miller 30 July 2014 03:42:15AM *  3 points [-]

Each bot will play one match against all other bots and against itself

This biases the tournament towards cooperation and makes it no longer a PD.

If multiple people submit identical bots, only one copy of the bot will be entered

This biases the tournament away from the defect every single round strategy.

Consider creating an elimination tournament where you run the game, eliminate the bottom half of the players, then run again, then iterate until only one player remains. If you decide to do this and are willing to go to the effort of programming my entry (since I don't know Haskell) please enter me with a bot that always defects.

Comment author: tetronian2 30 July 2014 09:33:48AM 5 points [-]

Thank you! These changes both make sense; I will adjust the tournament structure as you described and enter your bot when the tournament is open.