lackofcheese comments on 2014 iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament results - LessWrong

61 Post author: tetronian2 30 September 2014 09:23PM

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Comment author: lackofcheese 24 September 2014 03:23:53PM 4 points [-]

Also worth checking, out of interest: How does each of the bots perform when playing against itself?

Comment author: tetronian2 24 September 2014 03:54:15PM 11 points [-]

Good question--after running some matches:

AnderBot Cooperates until one of the copies randomly triggers a Defect, then both copies defect for the rest of the match.

CheeseBot, DMRB, SHTFT, SimpleTFTSeer, Switch, TatForTit, TwoFacedTit, and VOFB always cooperate with themselves.

Pip always defects against itself.

Comment author: Vulture 25 September 2014 12:38:56AM 3 points [-]

Pip always defects against itself.

Huh.

Comment author: V_V 24 September 2014 08:05:51PM *  3 points [-]

For a next version of the tournament, perhaps it would make sense to force each bot to play a match against itself.

This ensures that everybody playing DefectBot is no longer a tournament equilibrium (not that this is probably going to happen, anyway).

Comment author: lackofcheese 24 September 2014 05:44:26PM 2 points [-]

Self-cooperation was one of my core test cases, so I guess this probably indicates that many other people also designed for and/or tested self-cooperation.