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Should be: "Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Contains Strategies That Dominate Any Evolutionary Opponent at a Game as Simple as the Prisoner's Dilemma" You can write
by random32840 6y ago
Should be: "Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Contains Strategies That Dominate Any Evolutionary Opponent at a Game as Simple as the Prisoner's Dilemma"
You can write a perfect tic-tac-toe program with relatively simple rules, but an evolutionary strategy will wipe the floor at Go. This kind of modelling has value but real life is incredibly complicated, complicated strategies destroy simple ones as the rules of the game become more complex. Our brains are extremely expensive organs, and they're built that way for a reason. I think people are way trigger-happy extrapolating models like this to the real world.
- julienfr112 6y agoWhen games get more complex (Go), the problem with simple strategy is not that they are less effective, it's that they are not computable.
- random32840 6y agoBoth are problems. Our brains have a tremendous amount of compute and use complex, nuanced, adaptive strategies. The clearest example is how much energy we spend modelling other humans' thought processes. We spend so much because a simple permutation of tit-for-tat isn't sufficient - it will lose. It's an arms race to use complex strategies, an outcome which is specifically precluded in the model. I'd argue the fact observable reality is so divergent from the model means we should be skeptical of the applicability of the model.