2**2**2**2**2 wrong? Bug?

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

 "Wayne Brehaut" <wbrehaut at mcsnet.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:37:13 -0400, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >Wayne Brehaut wrote:
> >> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:32:03 -0700, "mensanator at aol.com"

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> Also, I tend to follow the general Evolutionarily Stable Strategy
> generally called "Retaliator".  In the simple game of Hawk vs. Dove a
> Hawk always attacks and defends to the death, whereas a Dove always
> runs. A mixed strategy would be to sometimes attack-and-defend and
> sometimes run, and a special case is to always run except when you're
> attacked--then defend to the death; i.e., behave like a Dove to a Dove
> and like a Hawk to a Hawk. 
> 
> In Game Theory, if not in practice, Retaliator is dominant over both
> pure Hawk and pure Dove, partly because some who present like Hawks
> are actually Bullies--who behave like Hawks until an opponent defends,
> then behave  like Doves.

*grin* - you realise of course, that this stated strategy leaves you wide
open to trolls of the "Lets see what we can provoke him into responding"
kind - from people whose sense of humour is either subtle, or evil...

- Hendrik