“If the discount parameter, w, is sufficiently high, there is no best strategy independent of the strategy used by the other player.”

—  Robert Axelrod, The evolution of cooperation

Chap. 1 : The Problem of Cooperation
Proposition 1.
The Evolution of Cooperation (1984; 2006)

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