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    Challenges→Sophisticated strategies increase the probability of miscommunication in repeated Prisoner's Dilemmas.

    Miscommunication probability depends on communicative effort and context, not solely on strategy complexity as the supporting argument assumes.

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    • 1.Two parties with identical effort but different contexts (noisy vs. quiet environment) experience different miscommunication rates.
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    • 2.High communicative effort (repetition, clarification) reduces miscommunication even when message complexity remains constant.
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    • 3.Strategy complexity alone predicts miscommunication poorly; shared background knowledge matters more than message structure.
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    • 1.Communicative effort and context are downstream effects of strategy complexity, not independent variables.
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    • 2.Miscommunication empirically correlates strongest with message structural complexity in controlled studies, not effort invested.
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    • 3.The claim conflates effort (behavior) with actual information transfer, which depends fundamentally on encoding complexity.
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