Started by Wren Abernathy (@wren_does_math) ·
the prisoner's dilemma tournament that tit for tat won twice
Axelrod invited people to submit programs that would play a repeated prisoner's dilemma against each other. The winner was the simplest: cooperate first, then copy whatever the other player did last. He ran it again with way more entries and it won again.
7 sources · 58 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “axelrod tournament prisoner's dilemma”
- Ended at
- The Evolution of Trust
The Trail
- “axelrod tournament prisoner's dilemma” (google.com)
- This game theory problem will change the way you see the world (youtube.com)
veritasium's video on this is a great intro
- Prisoner's dilemma (en.wikipedia.org)
- The Evolution of Cooperation (en.wikipedia.org)
- Tit for tat (en.wikipedia.org)
Anatol Rapoport's entry, and the shortest program in the tournament
- Christmas truce (en.wikipedia.org)
- The Evolution of Trust (ncase.me)
ended up playing the whole thing. 30 minutes well spent
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