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That's fascinating! Do you recall any examples of such tweaks? To my mind, making the decision more complicated for all players, human and bot alike, would probably have been justified. But I suppose for a 1980s computer scientist targeting only the bot was an extra-interesting puzzle.


I never got that deep into it. It mostly caught my attention because it was distinct variant of meta-gaming that I hadn't seen before.




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