The Political Scientist Robert Axelrod Once Held a Computer Tournament

question 71

Multiple Choice

The political scientist Robert Axelrod once held a computer tournament designed to determine the most successful prisoner's dilemma strategy (the strategy that would win most often for the longest period of time) . That strategy was dubbed ____.

• A) always-play-nice
• B) tit-for-tat
• C) low-ball
• D) survival-of-the-stealthiest

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