What Stephen Wolfram thinks about benchmarks

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1. 4 Jun 2026

   Our readingThe tit-for-tat strategy, despite its reputation as the most successful approach in game-theory strategy comparisons, ranks poorly when tested against the full space of possible strategies.

   Their wordsIt's notable that machine 22 (which corresponds to the famous "tit-for-tat" strategy) is quite far down in this ranking, even though it's often identified as the most successful in collections of human-suggested strategies.

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