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    It is not the case that Sophisticated strategies are self-undermining in repeated Prisoner's Dilemmas.

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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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    • 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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