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Read something once about the best way to interact with other humans. It boiled down to, you can scratch someone's back once but you don't scratch it again unti
by stormdennis 6y ago
Read something once about the best way to interact with other humans. It boiled down to, you can scratch someone's back once but you don't scratch it again until they've scratched yours. If someone does it to you first be sure to pay them back.
- gowld 6y agoIt's called "tit-for-tat" in th literature.
- stormdennis 6y agoThanks I couldn't remember what it was called.
- mindcrime 6y agoYep. As I recall, the origin of this idea comes from a series of competitions arranged by Robert Axelrod[1], where people submitted algorithms to participate in an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma[2] situation. Tit-for-tat was one of the simplest algorithms submitted, but yet it won the contest. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Axelrod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Axelrod [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma