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 Sorry I forgot to post this before class...

But when I was playing the Prisoner's Dilemma game I found it hard to think seriously about strategy, knowing that I was playing against a computer. Seeing as the point of the game is to decide whether you should cooperate or compete with your opponent, I think who your opponent it is would affect the game. A computer has to either have completely random actions or have some preprogramed response. After playing the game, you realize that the computer copies whatever you do. So although your actions determine your opponents, the response can never change. It think it would me more interesting to play against another person, so that we could see whether personality changes the results of the game. An incredibly competitive person could choose to always compete. A computer cannot properly replicate a person's actions in this game.