
Tit for Tat
Radiolab
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The Jesus Programme Is the Fittest
The jesus programme is a simple algorithm that says, always be good. It elicits co operation if the opponent has any inclination to cooperate but it doesn't take any guff and it wins. So you might say, in evolutionary terms, this programme is the fittest. axelrod played an evolutionary version of his tournament - he had these programmes reproduce copies of themselves according to how well they did. And then would the babies play each other? Ye, he ran them for many generations,. still like, suppose you have a world of lucifers and there are a few titfer tat players out there. Can they thrive? Can co operation emerge in this horribly hostile world
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