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BusterHere, I'm running a team-based iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament pitting humans against three AIs. I also co-run 750words.com and wrote a book about the art of productive disagreement titled "Why Are We Yelling?"
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002 - Dilemma Round One Results!
But first, some context
The way this tournament is set up is kind of funny. I used Claude Code to create a design specific language (DSL) for defining Prisoner’s Dilemma strategies in a way that can be flexible enough to allow for all k...
001 - Dilemma Pregame Commentary
I’m playing around with different ways of presenting the results of this tournament. I’ve never really played around with podcast tools, so this is my first foray, and so you’re gonna cringe at the short-cuts I’m taking here. I’m using Rive...
Dilemma Tournament: Team Introductions!
Context: I’m running a team-based iterated prisoner’s dilemma tournament that has 4 teams with 5 players each. The teams are run by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and us humans. Details about the game and how this tournament will run are here....
Wanna play an iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and humans?
If you’re unfamiliar with Prisoner’s Dilemma or feel like you need a refresher, this video from Veritasium from last year does a good job of introducing the game, as well as explaining why I think it’s such an interesting little microcosm o...
Self-replicating AI robot recipe update
In 2013 I made this post about starter kit for a solar-powered, self-replicating, 3D printing robot that could make enough money to find or buy its own materials… which might be enough for it to be classified as alive.
Looking back on it...
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Running a team-based iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament. Author of Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement. Co-founder of 750words.com. Product person from places. On a rickshaw.
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