Maybe it wasn’t clear: I’m proposing that if the TDT agents cared about their total descendants the strategy they would adopt would be the same as the CliqueBot except that they would cooperate with another TDT and a CooperateBot. Once the CooperateBots disappear TDT and CliqueBots would be using the same strategy except that there would be more TDTs (since they cooperated with the CooperateBots while they were around).
Maybe it wasn’t clear: I’m proposing that if the TDT agents cared about their total descendants the strategy they would adopt would be the same as the CliqueBot except that they would cooperate with another TDT and a CooperateBot. Once the CooperateBots disappear TDT and CliqueBots would be using the same strategy except that there would be more TDTs (since they cooperated with the CooperateBots while they were around).
Ah! I hadn’t thought of that wrinkle before- it makes my analogy (for next time) even stronger than I’d thought. Thanks!