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Cool i didn't know this had a name. In a way, its obvious once you are sufficiently cynical - in any system or long-term game, the most common strategy will be
by zaptheimpaler 7y ago
Cool i didn't know this had a name. In a way, its obvious once you are sufficiently cynical - in any system or long-term game, the most common strategy will be the one that wins often. From an evolutionary standpoint an advantage is an advantage, morality has nothing to do with it. The reason morality does matter is that over a long enough time frame, bad behavior becomes clear, good behavior breeds trust but that requires you play a long enough game with a stable set of people.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoIt has many names. "Natural selection" and "free market competition" are others. It's the same mechanism. > The reason morality does matter is that over a long enough time frame, bad behavior becomes clear, good behavior breeds trust but that requires you play a long enough game with a stable set of people. This is an exception rather than a rule, which is why you see little morality in nature, why it's a struggle to keep people behaving, and why it gets harder as societies become larger and more subdivided into specializations and abstraction layers.