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And that's the sad dichotomy between the easy species wide success from sharing and the ineffable drive to hoard and compete. I see this played out in the natur
by kleer001 11y ago
And that's the sad dichotomy between the easy species wide success from sharing and the ineffable drive to hoard and compete. I see this played out in the natural world too. Usually you have to twist a species' arm waaay back around it's back to get it to internally share. Bees, termites, naked mole rats. You get it.
- jchrisa 11y agoGood take. There is some hope from the new information-driven ways of organizing, that at least they can make cooperation more profitable than hoarding http://breakingsmart.com/season-1/the-zemblanity-of-containers/ http://breakingsmart.com/season-1/the-zemblanity-of-containe...
- kleer001 11y agoSeems like a similar thing in quorums of agents playing lots of rounds of The Prisoner's Dilemma. Where Tit-for-tat is the optimal strategy in one on one. But when you have groups of agents that can communicate before rounds and coordinate defaulting instead of cooperating the groups as a whole can score better than tit-for-tat.
- dghughes 11y agoAfter I wrote that I was reminded of a CBC radio program in my region that has a genealogy show. The expert guest on genealogy said people often hoard family artifacts and if (when) there is a disaster such as a fire in their home it's all lost. The hoarder would be better off sharing information and some artifacts among relatives but some people feel compelled to hide it as if it were treasure (which it may be).