I've written up a brief summary of all this here: https://vknight.org/2025/10/21/rrr.html

You can find a great talk from a few years ago from one of the other authors describing the process of reviving the work here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSFCvv2wpOU

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In the preprint we show how after reviving the code to work with the modern framework for the study of the Prisoners Dilemma (the axelrod python library) we **almost** reproduce the results.

Following that we then explore what would happen if the original tournament was slightly different. The […]