My entry BendBot is also essentially a deterministic EquityBot with a different opening sequence I thought was more likely to find cooperation faster. Also, I think I’m somewhat harsher against attacks, which makes me think my opening is indeed slightly more efficient. Assuming both were coded properly, 50% of the time when we meet we get perfect cooperation, 50% of the time we get a perfect 250-250, 50% of the time we get 247-247 because we each start 23, so eventually whoever is bigger will very very slowly grind out the other if we went heads up, and we effectively are acting as a block vs. the world at this point and combine to similar size to MeasureBot.
My entry BendBot is also essentially a deterministic EquityBot with a different opening sequence I thought was more likely to find cooperation faster. Also, I think I’m somewhat harsher against attacks, which makes me think my opening is indeed slightly more efficient. Assuming both were coded properly, 50% of the time when we meet we get perfect cooperation, 50% of the time we get a perfect 250-250, 50% of the time we get 247-247 because we each start 23, so eventually whoever is bigger will very very slowly grind out the other if we went heads up, and we effectively are acting as a block vs. the world at this point and combine to similar size to MeasureBot.