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The Prisoner's Dilemma Tournament
Complexity economics allows the economy to evolve in ways that wouldn't be possible if everyone moved in lock step. The prisoner's dilemma is this famous a game theory problem, and there's this idea that you have different algarithms for approaching it. A Swedish physicist called christianlindgren did a lovely piece of work imagining that there was a prisoner's dilemma tournament. He not only set up this computerized prisoner's dilemma tournaments, but he allowed that strategies, a given strategy, so you might be playing tit for tat consistently, a strategies could mutate. So normally i'm playing this prisoner's dilemma against similar strategies that are a bit different,. suddenly i'm faced