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Thursday, July 12, 2012

"The two-player Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma game is a model for both sentient and evolutionary..."

“The two-player Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma game is a model for both sentient and evolutionary behaviors, especially including the emergence of cooperation. It is generally assumed that there exists no simple ultimatum strategy whereby one player can enforce a unilateral claim to an unfair share of rewards. Here, we show that such strategies unexpectedly do exist.”

- “iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Contains Strategies That Dominate Any Evolutionary Opponent”

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