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    If miscommunication were sufficient to unravel cooperatio... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Sophisticated strategies are self-undermining in repeated Prisoner's Dilemmas.

    If miscommunication were sufficient to unravel cooperation, empirical repeated-game experiments would show universal defection, but they consistently show partial cooperation.

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    • 1.Repeated-game experiments show cooperation persists even with imperfect communication, suggesting miscommunication alone is insufficient to destroy it.
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    • 2.Cooperation emerges through reputation and reciprocity mechanisms that remain robust despite communication noise in laboratory conditions.
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    • 3.If miscommunication were truly sufficient to unravel cooperation, we would observe near-zero cooperation in real human societies with imperfect information.
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    • 1.Lab experiments use simplified payoff structures and transparent rules that minimize real-world miscommunication about intentions and consequences.
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    • 2.Partial cooperation in experiments may reflect subjects' risk-aversion and loss-aversion rather than proof that miscommunication permits robust cooperation.
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    • 3.The claim conflates sufficiency with necessity: miscommunication need not be sufficient to unravel cooperation to significantly destabilize it in practice.
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