I’m sure most people here are aware of Axelrod’s classic “experiment” with an Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma tournament in which experts from around the world were invited to submit any strategy they liked, with the strategy which scored the highest over several rounds with each of the other strategies winning, and in which Tit for Tat came out top (Tit for Two Tats winning a later rerun. Axelrod’s original experiment was fixed-horizon, and every single “nice” strategy (never defect first) that was entered finished above every single “greedy” strategy.
You should choose your strategy based the probability distribution you have for Clippy’s strategy. If you think that, like you, he’s read Axelrod, just choose Tit for Tat and you’ll both be happy.
I’m sure most people here are aware of Axelrod’s classic “experiment” with an Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma tournament in which experts from around the world were invited to submit any strategy they liked, with the strategy which scored the highest over several rounds with each of the other strategies winning, and in which Tit for Tat came out top (Tit for Two Tats winning a later rerun. Axelrod’s original experiment was fixed-horizon, and every single “nice” strategy (never defect first) that was entered finished above every single “greedy” strategy.
You should choose your strategy based the probability distribution you have for Clippy’s strategy. If you think that, like you, he’s read Axelrod, just choose Tit for Tat and you’ll both be happy.