This is the reason my bot attempted to recognize itself. Attention anyone who plays in a tournament that continues to use this bot pool: put the token LightninRoy in your source!
It seems fair that if I have to play against a copy of myself, then you have to play against two copies of myself (because it means the universe contains two instances of me). But make it millions, and then I play against approximately as much copies of myself as you do.
Why? In what circumstance would you ever be offered a choice to cooperate or compete with your concurrent self?
Probably in a respectable fraction of the universes in which other agents have a copy of your source code.
This is the reason my bot attempted to recognize itself. Attention anyone who plays in a tournament that continues to use this bot pool: put the token LightninRoy in your source!
In Robin Hanson’s em dystopia. :D
It seems fair that if I have to play against a copy of myself, then you have to play against two copies of myself (because it means the universe contains two instances of me). But make it millions, and then I play against approximately as much copies of myself as you do.
Good news: You win! :-)
Bad news: You lose! :-(
Best news: You cooperate. Twice! :D