In the computer tournaments described in Axelrods book (The Evolution of Co-operation), Tit for Tat wins in BOTH rounds. What he does claim is that it depends largely on the kind of other agents present in the game: if you have one TFT against many "defect always", TFT will certainly lose.
Anyway, this "victory" over tit for tat feels like a cheat: you have agents that are not selfish and exist only to lose...
So did I with my father's TK85 in the early 80's. I could load and save things from my tape recorder and program it to show nice things on the screen. I think we can deduce that TK85 already had all there was to have about interfaces...
Maybe, as once happened (but not in ESA), they made a confusion over metric system, using feets where should be meters, or maybe vice-versa... That would be enough for Beagle2 land in a quite different place. Or planet.
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In the computer tournaments described in Axelrods book (The Evolution of Co-operation), Tit for Tat wins in BOTH rounds. What he does claim is that it depends largely on the kind of other agents present in the game: if you have one TFT against many "defect always", TFT will certainly lose. Anyway, this "victory" over tit for tat feels like a cheat: you have agents that are not selfish and exist only to lose...
So did I with my father's TK85 in the early 80's. I could load and save things from my tape recorder and program it to show nice things on the screen. I think we can deduce that TK85 already had all there was to have about interfaces...
Maybe, as once happened (but not in ESA), they made a confusion over metric system, using feets where should be meters, or maybe vice-versa... That would be enough for Beagle2 land in a quite different place. Or planet.