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3 unusual facts about Tit for Tat


How Are We to Live?

Chapter Seven, "Tit for Tat", proposes that ethical behavior is in fact beneficial for the individual under real-life conditions, and proposes five practical ethical rules based on a computer simulation of the Prisoner's Dilemma.

The Evolution of Cooperation

The winner was a very simple strategy submitted by Anatol Rapoport called "TIT FOR TAT" (TFT) that cooperates on the first move, and subsequently echoes (reciprocates) what the other player did on the previous move.

Tit for tat

Evolutionary game theory, derived from the mathematical theories formalised by von Neumann and Morgenstern (1953), was first devised by Maynard Smith (1972) and explored further in bird behaviour by Robert Hinde.



see also

James Harrison Weir

His most notable appointment was as ambassador to Moscow from 1977 to 1980, until he was expelled as a tit-for-tat when the Soviet ambassador Vsevelod Sofinsky was expelled for passing funds to the pro-Soviet Socialist Unity Party of New Zealand.

NorduGrid

A tit-for-tat user group is formalized as a virtual organisation (VO), allowing the mutual use of such community resources.