No apologies necessary, Diplodude MM.

Apologies to Dipcomrade hthefourth, it is a bloomin'good suggestion

That would be super cool Dipbro Brainbomb. I'm confident that the best players from webdiplomacy could give that robot/Dalek/supercomputer a damn good thrashing

Yes! And I agree with MajorMitchell--there are some really good gunboat players on this site. How cool would it be to see Deepmind tested out on this site?

That's a most interesting article. The not about possible combinations ten to the power of 64, I think it was. No wonder my daffy aging clockwork brain struggles with the Diplomacy caper. The bit about learning how to detect emerging manipulative behaviour had me wondering whether the researchers had visited webdiplomacy and studied the behaviour of some players here who, well, how do I express this? ..are extremely adept at the manipulative behaviour caper..