Although I'm formally a co-author of this paper, I actually learned quite a bit myself about both complex systems and multiagent learning while working on this project. Thanks Wolfram for leading this really nice effort to bring fields closer together!

Awesome news, congrats! 🙂

Thanks for making me aware of the paper! I'm wondering whether the choice of game makes the difference here (volunteer's dilemma versus prisoner's dilemma). Either way, I'll have to read the paper more closely! :-)

Thanks for making me aware! It seems to me the two studies have slightly different setups (in ours, participants keep their co-player for many rounds, and they "only" engage in two different versions of a prisoner's dilemma). But I like your setup and your results a lot!

Thanks David!

When individuals engage in several games, there can be spillovers from one game to another. In principle, such spillovers could be used strategically to promote cooperation across games. However, our experiment suggests people in concurrent games cooperate less, compared to a control treatment.

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We miss you already. Have a great start! 🙂