Re:Retire This Idea: Scientific Knowledge Structured as “Lit...
by linhchi on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @02:04AM
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> the solution to the PD
Dyson truly proposes a great solution lying in PD. That is a huge oversight for game theorists when they let an outsider do that.
However, it's not the ultimate solution. It's an extremely interesting aspect (a strategy, a style of play) of the PD that game theorists somehow have never seen and articulated in maths.
For the evolutionary fitness of the extortioner solution that Dyson discovers:
Dyson truly proposes a great solution lying in PD. That is a huge oversight for game theorists when they let an outsider do that.
However, it's not the ultimate solution. It's an extremely interesting aspect (a strategy, a style of play) of the PD that game theorists somehow have never seen and articulated in maths.
For the evolutionary fitness of the extortioner solution that Dyson discovers:
Evolution of extortion in Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma games http://www.pnas.org/content/110/17/6913.abstract