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Peter Ellison is the author of The Unlived, a speculative novel exploring simulated reality, free will, and the cost of moral compromise. An engineer and entrepreneur, he has spent his career at the intersection of technology, artificial intelligence, and business. He holds a PhD from MIT and lives in Colorado.

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The Program That Never Won a Game

In 1980, the political scientist Robert Axelrod invited game theorists to a tournament. Each entrant would submit a computer program to play a simple game, the prisoner’s dilemma, two hundred rounds at a time, against every other program in the field. Fourteen arrived, written by economists, mathematicians, psychologists, and computer scientists. Some were elaborate, built to probe for weaknes

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G. Michael Hopf
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

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“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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