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    Sophisticated strategies are self-undermining in repeated Prisoner's Dilemmas.

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    • 1.Sophisticated strategies are adopted to handle miscommunication.
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    • 2.Sophisticated strategies increase the probability of miscommunication.
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    • 3.Miscommunication causes repeated-game cooperative equilibria to unravel.
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    • 1.Axelrod's tournament results demonstrate that Tit-for-Tat, a sophisticated strategy, achieves stable cooperation precisely because it handles defection errors with forgiveness.
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    • 2.A strategy that occasionally forgives defection reduces error-cascade unraveling, making sophisticated strategies self-stabilizing rather than self-undermining.
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    • 1.Binmore's evolutionary game theory shows that populations of sophisticated reciprocators outcompete naive cooperators when noise is present, contradicting the unraveling thesis.
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    • 2.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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    Miscommunication causes repeated-game cooperative equilibria to unravel.Sophisticated strategies are adopted to handle miscommunication.Sophisticated strategies increase the probability of miscommunication.

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    If players know that such miscommunication is possible, they have incentive to resort to more sophisticated strategies. In particular, they may be prepared to sometimes risk following defections with cooperation in order to test their inferences. However, if they are too forgiving, then other players can exploit them through additional defections. In general, sophisticated strategies have a problem. Because they are more difficult for other players to infer, their use increases the probability o
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