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ViggyNash
Oct 9, 2012

Covski posted:

All of this is very true and rather fascinating. I'm planning to make one or two semi-effortposts on how deep the rabbit hole on rock-papers-scissors can go. I''ve also read up a bit on programming competitions where rock-paper-scissors-bots play against each other, so I'll try to provide a few such fun facts as well. It's really amazing how complicated a simple game becomes when we put our mind to it.

There was a once programming competition based around the Prisoner's Dilema. Do you sell out, or trust the other player? (I can't source it, I heard it on a Radiolab episode though)

Turns out the winning move was to assume the other guy is trustworthy until they aren't, then never trust them again.

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