The Evolution of Trust
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The Evolution of Trust
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#2Very cool simulation.
Would love to see it with inter-agent communication between rounds, where those you cooperate with tell you who cheated them.
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#3This is by far one of the coolest things I've seen on this site.
Informative, engaging and educational. Would be very keen to learn more subjects through this method.
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#5This is by far one of the coolest things I've seen on this site. Informative, engaging and educational. Would be very keen to learn more subjects through this method.
Nicky Case has a lot more where that came from :D
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#6This caught my attention:
"So, it seems the math of game theory is telling us something: that Copycat's philosophy, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you", may be not just a moral truth, but also a mathematical truth."
Simpleton and copykitten for the win!
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#7This caught my attention: "So, it seems the math of game theory is telling us something: that Copycat's philosophy, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you", may be not just a moral truth, but also a mathematical truth." Simpleton and copykitten for the win!
More notable to me is the premise of the simulation that it is ok to kill off the poor to make room for the rich. Because using the simulation to justify moral/ethical/rational acceptability of cheating sometimes means accepting that premise.
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#8This caught my attention: "So, it seems the math of game theory is telling us something: that Copycat's philosophy, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you", may be not just a moral truth, but also a mathematical truth." Simpleton and copykitten for the win!
I also found it interesting how the success of cheaters requires a limited number of interactions (so their opponents don't catch on that they are cheaters). Perhaps that's why certain occupations such as used car salesmen have a reputation for being sleazy -- most people are not buying cars very often and so don't get the chance to get to know an individual seller over the course of many transactions. So while you might know that the corner-store merchant is screwing you and end up avoiding him, the used car salesman has a steady stream of suckers who don't know him.
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#9Of course, this all breaks down when you have a cartel :) I recall in one of the major prisoners dilemma tournaments, the winning entry was actually a coalition of users who would use the first few moves to establish a code for membership in the cartel, and then one entry was the master while the others were slaves. The slaves always cooperated and the master always defected, to their victory.
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