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

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    • 1.Sophisticated strategies are more difficult for other players to infer.
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    • 2.Greater difficulty of inference increases the probability of miscommunication.
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    • 1.Sophisticated strategies like tit-for-tat generate highly legible behavioral patterns that opponents can reliably decode over repeated iterations.
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    • 2.Axelrod's tournament results demonstrate that complexity in strategy design correlates with increased, not decreased, mutual predictability among rational agents.
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    • 1.Gricean cooperative principles entail that sophisticated communicators actively compensate for inferential difficulty by signaling intent more explicitly.
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    • 2.Miscommunication probability depends on communicative effort and context, not solely on strategy complexity as the supporting argument assumes.
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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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