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From: bill@utastro.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Prisoner's Dilemma
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Date: Thu, 10-May-84 11:11:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 10 11:11:10 1984
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>  I think that _Scientific American_ eventually held a contest, where
> all sorts of people submitted Prisoner's Dilemma programs - some of
> them very complex.  The winner was Rapoport, with a program that
> merely
> 
> 	 1. cooperated,
>  	 2. did what the opponent just did,
> 	 3. did what the opponent just did,
> 	 ...
> 
> Can anybody confirm my recollection?

Yep.  He called the strategy "tit for tat".
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