What Should I Read to Very Quickly Get Up-to-Speed on Dyson and Press's Zero-Determinant Prisoner's Dilemma Strategies?
Bill Press taught me what very little general relativity I ever knew, and now he and Freeman Dyson have come up with something absolutely fascinating.
I view it as a generation of TIT-FOR-TAT strategies in iterated prisoner's dilemma. Their strategies do better than tit-for-tat in an evolutionary context in the sense that they create an environment in which other strategies evolve in ways that profit the ZD strategies. But of course the ZD strategies are not themselves evolutionarily stable--and a population of a single ZD strategy does quite badly indeed…
Am I right? What should I read first?
