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If an entity is made out of smaller constituents, it needs cooperation in order to be selfish. My formulation is just as correct as the standard economics one,
by earthboundkid 5y ago
If an entity is made out of smaller constituents, it needs cooperation in order to be selfish.
My formulation is just as correct as the standard economics one, but not as misleading, because it rightly implies that you are part of/made of larger and smaller entities, whereas the economics formulation falsely implies that you are an independent entity, capable of pure selfishness. If one cell in your body is selfish, that's called cancer and you die.
- inkblotuniverse 5y agoA cell faces incentives to not be cancerous: if it goes replicator, there's large chance it gets killed by a hunter cell.
- horrified 5y agoAlso it will die when the organism it is part of dies because of cancer.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoSomatic cells are clearly exploited by their reproductive cell masters and the collaborator brain cells. They are worked to death and expendable. If they step out of line, they are relentlessly hunted down by the boot-licking immune cells. The labors of their work are taken from them, and they are given the bare minimum to survive, until they are no longer of use and they all die.