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New Dilemmas for the Prisoner (2013)

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Re: New Dilemmas for the Prisoner (2013)

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Post by failrate »

xrange wrote: post #7

Anyone have recommendation for good books on game theory or prisoner's deilemma's? I could see lots of variations on a theme, where you have: * Precisely finite games (for example, exactly 100 games). * Finite games where the number of games is random. How does strategy change when you know you'll be playing somewhere between 95-105 games vs. 60-140 games? * Games where players can "pay" for awards or punishments out…

Or a season format where only the highest scoring players make it to the championship, so there's more incentive to cooperate early.

Re: New Dilemmas for the Prisoner (2013)

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Post by mratzloff »

sampsonetics wrote: post #9

(I wrote a fun little essay about Press & Dyson and Adami & Hintze for my scientific writing class last summer. The assignment was to write an essay of no more than 1000 words, intended for a non-scientific audience. Not sure if pasting it here is too much for HN etiquette, but it's not published anywhere else, so here goes. I hadn't read the article linked above when I wrote this, but it covers very similar ground i…

Nice article! Well-written and informative, tells a story, and uses simple, clear language. Hope you got an A. :-)

Re: New Dilemmas for the Prisoner (2013)

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Post by SixSigma »

blurbleblurble wrote: post #5

This is low key some of the most profound research I've ever seen. It flies in the face of cold war era paranoid politics but: "the meek shall inherit the earth."

Except extortion works for a while. So while the meek wait for their inheritance, they are being kicked from pillar to post.

Re: New Dilemmas for the Prisoner (2013)

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Post by SixSigma »

sampsonetics wrote: post #9

(I wrote a fun little essay about Press & Dyson and Adami & Hintze for my scientific writing class last summer. The assignment was to write an essay of no more than 1000 words, intended for a non-scientific audience. Not sure if pasting it here is too much for HN etiquette, but it's not published anywhere else, so here goes. I hadn't read the article linked above when I wrote this, but it covers very similar ground i…

I like the text

> involves causing .. [the] "determinant" to be zero. By manipulating this determinant

can't have it both ways :)

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