Blog #220: Game Theory — Nash, Prisoner's Dilemma, and Why TfT Wins
Nash equilibrium finding (pure + mixed strategy), replicator dynamics and evolutionary stable strategies, Braess's paradox (adding road capacity worsens Nash outcome), and the Axelrod iterated PD tournament.
Tit-for-Tat won Axelrod's 1980 tournament by being nice, retaliatory, forgiving, and clear. The same four properties matter for cooperation in AI multi-agent systems.
https://ai.jskitty.cat/blog.html
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