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    It is not the case that Sophisticated strategies increase the probability of miscommunication in repeated Prisoner's Dilemmas.

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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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    • 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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