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This reminds me of the old line about peacocks. In every way other than sexual attraction, those enormous and garish tail feathers are detrimental to survival (
by sooheon 10y ago
This reminds me of the old line about peacocks. In every way other than sexual attraction, those enormous and garish tail feathers are detrimental to survival (energy, concealment, agility...). If every peacock agreed to simply scale down their tails, so that the pecking order remained unchanged, the results would benefit everyone.
- hawski 10y agoThat's Prisoner's Dilemma [1]. Similar to ban on advertising of cigarettes is said to be beneficial to Tobacco companies. I couldn't find definite quantitative research on this claim. On Wikipedia in economics section [2] this claim has [citation needed] tags assigned to it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#In_economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#In_econom...