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carykh / PrisonersDilemmaTournament

Watch This Place's awesome video about iterated Prisoner's Dilemma for context! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOvAbjfJ0x0
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Submission period is over for everyone now! #83

Open carykh opened 3 years ago

carykh commented 3 years ago

Hi Prisoners! As of 1 hour ago, (2021 May 28th 10 PM UTC), all strategy submission is closed, so you're free to discuss any strategies, thoughts, or what I was doing with "research" now (since no more players can be influenced by that.)

Anyway, I just want to say thank you again to everybody who submitted a strategy to this tournament. In the end, I received 1,615 strategies! I had initially intended to host this tournament with my college class of ~20 classmates only, but I figured "why not get as much data as possible?" so I opened it up to the public. Now there's 100x more data, which is enough to detect many more fascinating trends because of the law of large numbers.

I should also give thanks to Robert Axelrod, the political science professor who created this Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma tournament concept in 1980. His two tournaments were the inspiration for my project, so none of this would be possible without him! His research found that successful strategies had to have four characteristics: "Nice, retaliating, forgiving, and non-envious". I would be happy if I could add to those findings in any way.

Also, sorry for any confusion about the deadline over the last 2.5 days. I know I seemingly changed the rules a lot due to people requesting resubmissions more than I was expecting, but the good news is that I already know how I'll host the next tournament more smoothly! I'll also post QnAs for future tournaments on GitHub, since it's so much easier to see when things where posted, respond, and edit code. (YouTube comments are just... hard to use for discussion, lol)

Finally, yes, I am going to make a video announcing and analyzing the results of this tournament. I have no idea how long that will take though, because there might be way more interesting concepts to talk about than I was expecting! I do have to submit a paper about this experiment by June 4th, 2021, but I can write a paper faster than I can make a video. Still, if you get a message from me in the near future, you might have either

A) won the tournament, or B) done something "of interest" (like had the most diverse response to opponents, or gotten the lowest score, or coded the most complicated strategy, who knows)

Cool cool! -Cary

ThatXliner commented 3 years ago

You better hope no one uses this to make your time code-reviewing a pain.

redtachyon2098 commented 3 years ago

It will be tedious for you, and nerve-wracking for us!(Ugh, I made a really complex strategy with 220 lines, but I submitted something else instead!)