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lackofcheese comments on Announcing the 2014 program equilibrium iterated PD tournament - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: lackofcheese 06 August 2014 09:46:02AM 1 point [-]

Each bot can run a simulation of the other if the circumstances under which they run their opponents are not the same.

For example, JusticeBot does indeed run a simulation of its opponent, but this is not a problem because JusticeBot simulates what the opponent will do against CooperateBot, not against JusticeBot.

Similarly, an agent could run a simulation of its opponent against itself, but with a different history.

Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 06 August 2014 07:43:23PM 1 point [-]

But that different history would have to result in not running a further simulation.

Comment author: lackofcheese 07 August 2014 01:26:06AM 1 point [-]

Not immediately, but yes, the recursion would eventually need to hit a base case.