Extortion can outperform generosity in the iterated prisoner’s dilemma

The zero-determinant (ZD) strategies discovered by Press and Dyson overturned several decades of consensus about the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Here, the authors provide the first empirical evidence in support of Press and Dyson’s theory, by showing that knowledge of the opponent and the leng...

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Main Authors: Zhijian Wang, Yanran Zhou, Jaimie W. Lien, Jie Zheng, Bin Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11125