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An interesting hypergammon programming project

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Thursday, 4 September 2014, at 3:14 p.m.

In Response To: An interesting hypergammon programming project (Tom Keith)

Tom Keith wrote:

My concern is that the answer you'd get is going to depend more on the strategy you choose for the fish than on some fundamental property of the game.

I'm not sure I understand. Of course it will depend more on the fish strategy than on some fundamental property of the game. That's the point. I'm confused as to why anyone would expect or hope that it would depend on some fundamental property of the game.

Bob Koca wrote:

That is a consistent weak strategy. For many fish it would be inconsistent and I think that makes it harder to exploit.

Correct. The answer will of course depend on the fish strategy. I'm interested in the answer to the question for any fish strategy that anyone cares to articulate.

One needs to start with something simple and work up from there.

The next level of investigation would be, if Shark is sensitively tuned to exploit Fish, how vulnerable is Shark to a Bigger Shark that is sensitively tuned to exploit Shark?

I've mentioned this before but perhaps people have forgotten. Analogous questions have been investigated for rock-paper-scissors with results that would probably amaze most people. People have come up with strategies that are robust against a field of widely varying non-equilibrium strategies, provided that the field is seeded with some known weak strategies.

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